Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

William Safire

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Manuel Puig

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Marilynne Robinson

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Stanford Moore

In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual purs...

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress. The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance and superstition, the less is his sens...

An Atheist Manifesto

While there are certainly informational spillovers as ideas move from person to person, it is hard to see why in most instances they are not priced. Although it is possible to imagine examples such as the wheelbarrow where an idea cannot be used with...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth. While it may occasionally be the case that an idea is acquired at no cost—ideas are generally difficult to communicate, and t...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the g...

Some Mistakes of Moses

The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists...

G.K. Chesterton

The Christian message has a moral challenge. If the message is true, the moral challenge has to be accepted. So God is not a fit object for man’s detached scrutiny. You cannot fix God at the end of a telescope or a microscope and say “How interes...

Basic Christianity

It is because of the Biblical curse on man's search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages, and its detrimental effect upon progress, that makes the Bible the most wicked, the most detestable, the most pernicious, and the...

An Atheist Manifesto

A brick can be used as a nickname for people who are slow, both physically and intellectually. 

Brick and Blanket

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

The October Country

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.

One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

Richard Engel