Quotes About Intellectual

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

the academic world, the intellectual world, where always to be antagonizing people and challenging whatever they said was apparently looked on with admiration.

Knowledge is passive, intellectual; suffering is active, personal. No intellectual answer will solve suffering. Perhaps this is why God sent his own Son as one response to human pain, to experience it and absorb it into himself.

Marilynne Robinson defends the Puritans from what she regards as a caricature of their positions. Say what you will about their rigid morality: these Puritan thinkers were highly learned, with sophisticated prose styles, and we are fortunate in having them set so high an intellectual standard for later American essayists to follow.

Un jour, j'irai vivre en Théorie, car en Théorie, tout se passe bien.

Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual affinity to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him.

When you steal a book, you steal from the world , the Library propaganda said

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Frustrated, Carl said, 'Ain't we anarchyists?' 'It's pronounced an-are-kists . And no, we aren't.' 'I thought we was.' 'We rule through chaos. That's different.' Carl sounded like a pouting child. 'We need to be doing some anarchyism.' Intellectual arguments between satanists were less witty than I had expected.

Justice was nothing but a concept, not a fact, manipulated and ceaselessly redefined by everyone from the manufacturers of pop culture in Hollywood to politicians to self-appointed deep thinkers who were as susceptible to intellectual fashion trends as the average teenager was driven to want whatever sneakers and jeans were the cool gear of the moment.

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.

Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don't take any drugs, I take books.

Yet we can look at other people and, more or less, see the inadequacy of our ideological individuality. We often point out that someone "was born a bad seed and was going to turn out rotten no matter what," or someone "was destined to triumph and succeed." In fact, "it's in the stars" is still used, even though in modern intellectual circles the concepts of Fate and Destiny are

It ended because of a set of discovered conclusions. Among them, that mob consciousness responded collectively NOT to rational intellectual perspectives, but to some kind of emotional empathy that was somehow subconsciously TRANSMITTED. This, however, could not be explained unless the concept of telepathy was brought into consideration.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

A writer […] is poor in any country; he is only rich in spirit and in the satisfaction of having concluded an intellectual feat.

Scholarship was, above all else, honored among the Jews—scholarship not as "pure" activity, not as intellectual release, but as the pathway, sometimes treacherous

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.