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The possession of half a dozen imposing university degrees may just as easily hinder a man's approach to philosophy as help it. It will do so if it generates emotional pride and intellectual self-conceit, if it makes him sceptical of intuitions and antithetic to prayer, if it prevents him from approaching the Overself with humility and love so that he cannot weep at his estrangement from it.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 1 : The Place of Intellect > # 58