One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
We need to awaken the intellectual maverick within ourselves
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry training, the stupidity training, the placation training. How am I to put this to...
The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into question, to shake habits, ways of acting and thinking, to d...
It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded ...
Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like conglomeration of intellectual exchanges involving many participants all trying to manipulate the i...
We are all familiar with intellectuals who speak only on behalf of their country, class, religion, 'race,' 'gender,' or 'sexual orientation,' and who shape their opinions according to what they take to be the interest of their affinity of birth or pr...
Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as wel...
