Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Stan Slap

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

Life

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

Ernestine Rose

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

Steven Pinker

An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack....

The Angel's Game

Burke's admonition--"The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations"--never seems to have occurred to Hayek. The Arnoldian ideal of the disint...

Jerry Z. Muller

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ we seem to have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to not hav...

ABC's of Indian National Education

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing visio...

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches the personality like a seed that germinates after a long time and sends forth many...

Daisaku Ikeda

Thus posed, the problem of unbrotherliness can oppose socialism, which uses and abuses the word bortherhood while rejecting fatherhood. Socialism has no opponent. Religions, with their transcendental content, being "not of this world", with the Kingd...

Love

The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows only one positive "religion", and that is the worship of material progress, the belief that there is no other goal in life t...

Islam at the Crossroads

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.

Dispelling Wetiko

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

How to Be Alone

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

Nick Cannon

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Walter Pater