One of the chief problems a modern society has to face is how to provide an outlet for the intellectual’s restless energies and yet deny him power. How to make and keep him a paper tiger.
Intellectual Quotes
Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the […]
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we’ve been producing is footnotes.
The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
The intellect is meant to expand perceptions, to help you grow in perpetual strength and complexity, and not to do any harm.
The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.
To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.
