Quotes About Intellectual

it was an odd sensation, knowing intellectually that they were machines but emotionally reacting anyhow.

The heart can know peace but the mind cannot be satisfied; the drive to know, to possess intellectual certitude is doomed to failure.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Phantoms. Ghasts of this kind or that. Emissaries of the Evil One. Do you believe that? Of course. It would be an intellectual failure to do anything else.

Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar.

Emoji - a noun An assisted-living device invented for handicapped Americans whose intellectual discernment has been permanently damaged by over exposure to toxic doses of canned laughter emnanatiing from their boob tubes.

Why should half the country fund institutions that regard them as racists, sexists, homophobes, Islamophobes, and xerophobes -- in a word, 'deplorables'? Republicans should use their leverage to represent the half of the population that academic ideologues have put into the basket of deplorables and restore intellectual diversity to institutions that have become one-party states.

The current dimensions of the left's intellectual crisis are more readily grasped in a writer like Noam Chomsky, who, as an anarchist, has never had illusions about existing "socialisms" and has no attachment, intellectual or visceral, to pristine Marxism. Chomsky's intellectual integrity and moral courage, to my mind, set a standard for political intellectuals.4 Yet in a manner that is not only characteristic of the non-Trotskyist left but seems endemic to its

In these outpourings Hitler's envy of Britain became plain – his envy of the national spirit, master-race qualities and genius whereby the British had won their colonial empire. Other themes emerged in these early, beerhall speeches. He demanded that Germany become a nation without class differences, in which manual labourer and intellectual each respected the contribution of the other.

It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state.

Someone might say, I don't understand music; but most people experience music emotionally and would agree that music is an abstraction. You don't need to put music into words right away--you just listen. Cinema is a lot like music. It can be very abstract, but people have a yearning to make intellectual sense of it, to put it right into words.

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.

Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were the inheritors of the enlightenment, the creators of the welfare state, the intellectual elite and the source of all culture. Where they got this idea, it's hard to say.)

I knew my mother was in the process of becoming, or trying to become, "an intellectual," because my father often threw this term at her as a form of insult during their arguments.

In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were the inheritors of the enlightenment, the creators of the welfare state, the intellectual elite and the source of all culture.

I'm a child of academics.

I have, by nature, an analytical mind.

I've always been an analytical person.

I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?

Pe cît de jalnic? ?i de nociv? a fost ?i este presta?ia moral? a jurnalismului din România, pe atît de steril? intelectual ?i nul? cognitiv este presta?ia puzderiei de poli?i?ti care, belfere?te, a monopolizat înv???mîntul superior cu ?tiin?a lor inutil?, producînd puzderie de Fachidioten – de speciali?ti incul?i, semidoc?i, limbu?i ?i, în cel mai bun caz, retori.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970) and Greek Science after Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973)