I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
