The problem with intellectuals is that they are often "incomplete" humans; they have hypertrophied brains but juvenile psyches and deformed morality. Goethe showed this well in his story about Faust.
It is no coincidence that Kazantzakis' ideal, the person he looked up to was the simple and lively "Zorba the Greek" because he was a human in direct contact with life and existence, unlike intellectuals (like Kazantzakis himself) who approach life over-cautiously and distantly as if it's a frog to be dissected and a problem to be solved.
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