Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What he [the intellectual] should learn to do is to put what he has been able to salvage from the disciplines that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been… — Don Rose Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts,… — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal… — Angus MacLean Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly… — Jean Said Makdisi Copy Share Image
The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and… — Roger Smith Copy Share Image
Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and… — David Goggins Copy Share Image
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
