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# Intelligence equals moral health, and health is needed to live long, not only physically but mentally
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/intelligentnost-ravna-nravstvennomu-zdoroviu-a-zdorove-nuzhno-chtoby-zhit-dolgo-ne-tolko-fizicheski-no-i-umstvenno/
- Published: 2021-11-28T15:05:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:39:55.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Mores, People

The fundamental principle of the intelligentsia's ethos is intellectual freedom, freedom as a moral category. The only things from which a cultured person is not free are his own conscience and his own thought.

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