“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
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
“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
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
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood 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
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience… — William James 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
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
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker 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
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
“The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
