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# Intelligence Is Moral Health, and Health Is Needed to Live Long, Not Only in Body but in Mind
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/intelligentnost-ravna-nravstvennomu-zdoroviu-a-zdorove-nuzhno-chtoby-zhit-dolgo-ne-tolko-fizicheski-no-i-umstvenno-2/
- Published: 2025-05-19T06:01:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:06.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Mores, People

The fundamental principle of the intelligentsia's ethos is intellectual freedom, freedom as a moral category. The cultivated person is unfree only in respect of his own conscience and his own thought.

Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev, “Letters on the Good and the Beautiful”.