Logic Quote by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“Intellectualization complicates truth as it abstracts from what is.”

— Omar Delawar

“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as…

— Edward W. Said

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

— Noam Chomsky

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“your philosopher simply plays on abstract terms and empty words.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

“All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”

— John Leslie

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We still have not defined the intellectual yet: all we have are technicians of practical knowledge who either accommodate themselves to their contradiction or…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty