Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ...… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
“There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff -… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother.” — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
