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I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts,… — Sherwood Anderson
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. — William C. Brown
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. — Max Weber
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as… — David Riesman
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have… — Michel Foucault
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. — Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a… — Susie Orbach
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put… — Andrew Greeley
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are… — Evangeline Lilly
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are… — Douglas Sirk
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime… — Ray Conniff
Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion. — Ray Davies
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is… — Herbert Marcuse
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism. — Hari Kunzru
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit. — Peter York
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning… — Carrie P Snow
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word… — Eric Hoffer
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura… — Thomas Sowell
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords… — Thomas Sowell

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