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Quit worrying about having a title!. Educate yourself by reading and reading and reading!. Read many and varied titles, not just what you perceive as something that will give you a certain appearance!. Someday somebody might tell you that you are "very intellectual" and then you will know!. Most of all, learn and practice humility!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You do not "become"!. You either are or aren't depending on genetics, environment and many other factors!. If you want to improve your mental acuity, then I suggest reading a lot of books!. But don't just read the words!.!.!.ponder the words you read!. Talk about the books with others that are reading or have read them!. Striving to be as intelligent as you can possibly be, is not the true issue!. It's whether you have the "desire" to strive!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Read deeper thinkers and then write about them!. But always keep reading!. The shallow thoughts of our times is caused by the massive decline in reading!.

Here's some books I suggest you could start with:

Plato -- The Republic, The Laws
Aristotle -- Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Metaphysics
Thucydides -- The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians
St!.Augustine -- The City of God
Dante -- The Divine Comedy
Maimonides -- the guide of the Perplexed
St!. Aquinas -- Summa Theologica
Machiavelli -- The Prince, The Discourses on the First ten books of Titus Livius
Bacon -- New Atlantis, Advancement of Learning
Descartes -- Discourse on Method, Meditations
Hobbes -- Leviathan
Locke -- Two Treatises of government, An essay concerning Human Understanding
Milton -- Paradise Lost
Shakespeare -- Hamlet, King Lear,
Spinoza -- Theologico-Political Treatise
Hume -- Treatise of Human Understanding, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Rousseau -- Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts
Smith -- The Wealth of Nations
Burke -- Reflections on the Revolution in France
Kant -- Critique of pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason
Hegel -- Phenomenolgy of the Mind
Marx -- Capital
Nietzsche -- Beyond Good and evil, Thus spoke Zarathustra
Husserl -- Logical Investigations
Heidegger -- Being and Time
Wittgenstein -- Philosophical Investigations
Popper -- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The open Society and its EnemiesWww@QuestionHome@Com

Investigate some subject you are interested in through book reading,internet research, talking, message boards (or Yahoo answers), etc!. You must be genuine and passionate about whatever it is you study or else you will come off as shallow and pretentious!. I'm not passionate about intellectualism so I'm sure I sound shallow and pretentious right now!. :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

To be an intellectual, in my opinion, requires having knowledge and desiring to know more!.
An intellectual is not someone who knows it all but one who is hungry to learn!.
The truly wise understand the transitory nature of "knowledge"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you basically just have to read alot-classics and books in different languages such as ancient icelandic and ancient greek!. it sounds a bit boring to me but to an intellectual this is the most fun you could ever have!. being intelligent probabley helps too!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

You can decide this without the help of us!.

First define what an intellectual is!. Secondly decide how it will be to your advantage if you donned the cloak of intellectualism!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Being intelluctual means learning to love humankind !. so just by loving all human beings we can become really intelluctual !.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's like becoming an athelete!.

You must relentlessly pursue the truth!.
Never assume you know it all!.

And it helps if you've started with good genes!.
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Start hanging out with other people who are really smart!. So smart, in fact, that they think they're better than everybody else!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

When you hear the "William Tell Overture" and don't think of the Lone Ranger!.!.!.then you're an intellectual!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Start thinking!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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