Saturday, 3 October 2026

Intelligence Is Moral Health, and Health Is Needed to Live Long, Not Only in Body but in Mind

Intelligence Is Moral Health, and Health Is Needed to Live Long, Not Only in Body but in Mind

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”.

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