On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
speaking of which, who was it who defined an intellectual as someone
who could maintain two contradictory ideas in his/her head at the same
time?
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intelligence-is-the>
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Attribution: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. first
published in Esquire (New York, Feb. 1936). The Crack-Up, The Crack-
Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
