Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Poets are the sense philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves! Why thirty or forty skins or hides as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

If Copenhagen were a person that person would be generous beautiful elderly but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love of will of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.