Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
Intellectual Quotes
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his own vanity. Godlike, he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words.
(The intelligensia.) For various reasons this shadowy caste is largely made up of men who have official stamps upon their learning – that is, of professors, of doctors of philosophy; outside of academic circles it tends to shade off very rapidly into a half-world of isolated anarchists. One of those reasons is plain enough: the […]
A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine.
One thing that Hitler and his frineds have demonstrated is what a relatively good time the intellectual has had during the past hundred years. After all, how does the persecution of Joyce, Lawrence, Whitman, Baudelaire, even Oscar Wilde, compare with the kind of thing that has been happening to Liberal intellectuals all over Europe since […]
The role of the intellectual is to warn, to predict horrors, to be a Cassandra who tells us what is going on outside the walls of the city… the intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear witness to the misery of the world, should be provocative by being independent… should be the chief doubter of systems […]
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
Intellectuals are like the mafia; they only kill their own.
To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word “Intellectual” suggests straight away A man who’s untrue to his wife.
