The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike… — Richard Hofstadter 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
It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
“The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
“They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
“When one considers American history as a whole, it is hard to think of any very long period in which it could be said… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share
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