Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are… — Johanna Siguroardottir Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I will never do nudity. I don't care how dark and intellectual the role could be, you know...I don't care if I… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The American people, I think, are tired of being told. They're tired of being told this is as good as it gets.… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
