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Viliam comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stephen_Cole 22 August 2015 04:25:31AM 1 point [-]

Rather than define it, here is a (purported, I don't recall this one from Beyond Good and Evil) quote:

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment author: Viliam 23 August 2015 08:52:51AM 5 points [-]

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. – Friedrich Nietzsche

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. -- Aldous Huxley