Intellectual Spark Quotes

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I know I might sound a little bit picky, but someone like a muse who can inspire me is my ideal type.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.