Goal Quote by Jeffrey Tucker

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want…

— Kevin Vanhoozer

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very…

— George Saunders

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

— Cornel West

“What he [the intellectual] should learn to do is to put what he has been able to salvage from the disciplines that taught him…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do…

— Leo Tolstoy

“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the highest purposes…

— George Monbiot

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our…

— Frederich Leopold Von Hardenberg

“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

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

— Anonymous

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

— Abraham Maslow

“Intellectual understanding and rational knowledge are by nature spiritual obstructions caused by arbitrary confirmation and denial...The essence of intellectual understanding and rational knowledge originates…

— Shang Yang-tzu