Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath…

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

— Jostein Gaarder

“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful of men…

— William Mulvihill

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

I truly believe the way to build a good civilization is to do it on Judaeo-Christian values because whenever you do it on Judaeo-Christian…

— Beneil Dariush

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Intellectual culture has no necessary relation to purity or excellency of character...

— Derick

“Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not…

— Naomi Oreskes

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of…

— Noam Chomsky

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to…

— Lewis Mumford

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

— Octavio Paz

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

— Eckhart Tolle