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.
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 a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make ...
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...
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, an...
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...
if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to college before they are intellectually and morally prepared for the indoctrination-rather-than-education they will receive there. Therefore, prepare them...
The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though u...
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.
My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
