Quotes 21 till 40 of 155.
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Human Options (1981) -
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
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Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
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I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
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I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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