Is there any intellectuals that were also great fighters

>Teddy Roosevelt
>intelectual

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naval_War_of_1812

>tfw you were depressed that you'd never be smart like the greats
>tfw now you realize you won't become nearly as strong as them either

Why am I a failure and how do I tie a noose?

>oriental
But Bodhidharma was a oriental too. He was a Pallava prince from Southern India, or a central asian, whichever fancies your presupposition.

Muhammed desu

Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington

Dear amerifat, just because they where able to read and write and somehow managed to get president, doesn't mean they where intellectuals.

Dear whoever you are, Theodore Roosevelt was definitely an intellectual. To suggest otherwise is baseless

Hugo Chavez
Che Guevara
Adolf Hitler
Karl Marx
Julius Evola
Pinochet

Neil degrasse Tyson was a wrestler

The only one who is even a maybe is che and thats a stretch

Benito Mussolini fought in sword duels. He fought against a communist who was shittalking his newspaper. He also dueled a lot of other people and was proficient at it.

Benito was not exactly an intellectual.
Can't you /pol/acks fuck off, it is evident that you have nothing to contribute.

Teddy Roosevelt was also one of the first westerners to take up Judo. I think he was the first American to ever get a brown belt.

Becoming a great fighter takes time and effort just like becoming an intellectual does. Most people tend to focus on one area.

Or was an amalgam of several characters.

I am not American.

I've read all there's private correspondence as well as public testaments. Those three presidents are worthy of Greek god status.

Socrates was a distinguished combat veteran.

Feels like you're stretching the definition of 'intellectual'. He was intelligent, but not exactly what I'd call an 'intellectual'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaoka_Tesshū

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanō_Jigorō

Descartes was an accomplished swordmaster and soldier. He wrote a treatise on fencing but it has been lost to history.

oh i forgot they're only considered intellectual if faggot modern day leftists idolize them like Thomas Paine.

this

The NEET/Chad Hybrid Socrates

He mastered the sun and the steel.

He would have but he lost a few points for being lato.

If you'd consider gang rape a form of peer review

No, buddy. If you look close at teddies life, he was quite the nerd actually.

Not claiming he is groundbreaking either. He had some fantastic thoughts and theories though. His political theory and play in world politics helped stop the Russo-Japanese war. His idea of small government still controlling big capital is pretty good too

This. He always broadcasted his athletics to his people.

youtube.com/watch?v=0O0GjjEQNT8

Xenephon
The source of most of our knowledge of socrates, and a respected philosopher in his own right, was elected leader of the ten thousand, a bunch of greek mercenaries who were force to fight their way back to greece from what is modern Iraq.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand_(Greek_mercenaries)

This guy obviously.

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Socrates was a capable soldier in his youth.

He had the makings of a varsity athlete

Pretty much this.

Beautiful people are often smart AND have a good capacity to gain muscle mass.

Most CEOs are tall and handsome.

Sure there are exceptions like Einstein or Stephen Hawking who have scrawny, weak bodies but exceptions prove the rule.

>Can't you /pol/acks fuck off, it is evident that you have nothing to contribute.
no lmao

Lots of lawyers and poets and the like fought in the Spanish civil war. I suppose the best candidate would be Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera who founded the basis of the Falangist ideology but there'd be examples of Republican intellectuals as well I just can't think of any off the top of my head (Orwell maybe but he wasn't Spanish)

Yeah but Plato was actually retarded.

Reminder that Hawking was pretty athletic before he was affected by his disease.

Bill Nye flew F15s in the Korean War

Pericles comes to mind.

He's also less an intellectual than Trump. He's a barely qualified engineer with IIRC a BA in the Mechanical field.

How proud are you of that post?

Franz Boas was a fencer. Had multiple scars on his face from it.

Teddy Roosevelt was very smart but when someone says "intellectual" I think of someone whose main product or trade is the creation of novel ideas or theories.

Miyamoto Musashi

As far as I know he couldnt write, and others did it for him.

He was however a famous artist, this is his self-portrait

As much as I love Boas, that's not rpoof he was a good fighter. Most educated Germans from that time were fencer with similar scars. Collegiate fencing was a big deal at the time, and Germans had a crazy version of it. It basically involved two people facing each other and cutting away with sharp swords. The person with the most cuts won because it meant they were willing to take the most damage, and were therefore more honorable. Dueling scars were incredibly fashionable among the German elite because of that.

>tfw no one else showed up to practice sword fighting and they are all at the bar drinking sake with girls

I'm surprised Machiavelli isn't in here. He literally trained the Florentine militia, and led them to several victories. He was later captured and tortured by the Medici, and had his arms broken. Yet he continued to maintain his innocence, and was released.

Holy shit are his teeth photoshopped?

>Be under British rule
>Have visible teeth

No wonder he made it into Civilization

>bodhidharma.
>introduced martial arts to the orientals.
It's a myth.

Buddhist Monks doing martial arts descended from the sheer reality of living in the remote Chinese countryside: you police your own ass.

Due to the fact that the Imperial government cant disperse its soldiers far away from their garrisons in the cities to police the empire, it often left the job to other entities: most of the time, the civilians themselves. To that end, Chinese rural villagers owned weapons and drilled at some point in the year. To make sure village posses do legal actions, a judge dredd type official called a prefect oversees any posse action and at times commands them in anti-bandit operations. Anyone armed peasants arrested was brought to him for investigation, trial, and or imprisonment or execution.

Like villagers, monks of various religions in China owned weapons and defended themselves. Unlike villagers, all that free time between meditations meant these monks had shitloads of time for drills. If peasants can only afford, say, drilling in winter or past harvest season, Monks did it weekly. Daily possibly. Factor in the fact that Monks have extra incentive since their monasteries are places in very remote areas filled with money and food.

So what came down those mountains were people who are very good in fighting, to the point that they were paramilitary tier.

Similar arrangements existed for monasteries in Korea and Japan. In Japan it ratcheted up to 11 when Buddhism became a political force there and the Monasteries basically feudal holdings with its monks technically became part of the bushi warrior class.

Besides social philosophy, and his work as a government official, Confucius taught archery and chariotry: the principal battlefield role of the Spring-And-Autumn Period Chinese aristocracy.

Confucius is a swordsman and an archer, and he can drive chariot.

Ptolomey I

Mushashi

There is an ancient Chinese concept called "Scholar Warrior"(儒將), it's basically the golden model of warriors in Chinese mindset.

E.g. Confucius, Wang Yangming.....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yangming

Physical attractiveness doesn't really have no positive or negative correlation on intelligence,

take a good look at aboriginies and say that again with a straight face.

It's all rather subjective, abbos probably don't find caucasians attractive either.

Dude everyone finds Caucasians attractive, white people are fetishized the world over.

Martial Arts in the orient predate bodhidharma.

Jesus Christ. He got rid of all the jews from the temple by himself with only a cat of nine tails and some tables. The man could move mountains, for fucks sake

Not only do I have a deep understanding of history, philosophy, economics, and mathematics, but I also have mastered the art of war and have studied the blade.

If he were so strong why could he barely carry a cross?

Andrew Jackson

Nietzsche

>A guy mentions Benito
>You call him /pol/ for no reason
Well I guess that when commies call people /pol/, it's not because they were bringing up politics, it's because they said things the commie didn't like.
Can't wait for when Western Civ collapses and I can gut all you fucking commies

Because he had just been whipped and beaten for hours beforehand?

tell him to man up. Hes part God for fuck sake. No excuse. Hercules could have done better.

Marx.

Byron & Shelly.

There were a shit tonne of intellectuals that turned up for the Spanish Civil War. I don't know if you would call them fighters or just chumps that turned up and got shot to shreds by german machine guns.

Physical attractiveness signals body symmetry.

A chain of DNA with "flaws" that screw up symmetry have a greater chance of generating other types of flaw that might be latent or acute.

The reason we find symmetry attractive is that symmetrical cases of the species were healthier than non-symmetrical cases of species.

Most people of low IQ have faces that validate physiognomy.

The world isn't a fucking script. The beautiful are more likely to be "the smart' than the ugly.

Orwell HATED intellectuals though.

you're right bro, these guys are handsome as fuck

holy shit...

All propositional statements are gambles against the caprice of reality. You found some "less than 8/10" people in high positions. You have to realize it's a principle that one gets better "payout" than an opposite principle ("Ugly People are usually smart").

So was this picture supposed to shatter the evident reality that smarter people are often handsomer people as well?

Teddy was a pretty accomplished historian, even before rising to political prominence his Naval War of 1812 (which he wrote in his early 20s) was required reading at Annapolis.

That didn't not make him one. He's still fucking great, though. Wells, Hitler, and the World State is always a great read.

orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws

>Before you can even talk of world reconstruction, or even of peace, you have got to eliminate Hitler, which means bringing into being a dynamic not necessarily the same as that of the Nazis, but probably quite as unacceptable to ‘enlightened’ and hedonistic people. What has kept England on its feet during the past year? In part, no doubt, some vague idea about a better future, but chiefly the atavistic emotion of patriotism, the ingrained feeling of the English-speaking peoples that they are superior to foreigners. For the last twenty years the main object of English left-wing intellectuals has been to break this feeling down, and if they had succeeded, we might be watching the S.S. men patrolling the London streets at this moment. Similarly, why are the Russians fighting like tigers against the German invasion? In part, perhaps, for some half-remembered ideal of Utopian Socialism, but chiefly in defence of Holy Russia (the ‘sacred soil of the Fatherland’, etc. etc.), which Stalin has revived in an only slightly altered from. The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions — racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war — which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

i realize its just a picture, but honestly it seems highly dubious just off of anecdotal evidence. obviously thats not enough though
so here's some evidence to the contrary
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393206004155
testosterone correlated with lower IQ in prepubertal children
attractive=/= high testosterone always but its a fair approximation since women look for androgenic qualities in a man
medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(06)00658-X/abstract
increased androgen sensitivity leads to lowered sperm count but speedier neuronal transmission

You got any evidence to back that up other than muslims getting all hot and bothered about blonde women?

I think you're conflating intelligence with socio-economic success.