Culture Quote by Johan Huizinga

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

— Os Guinness

“The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and all those…

— Bertrand Russell

“For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.”

— Maggie Nelson

“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As far as…

— John Piper

“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as…

— Robert C. Tucker

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of…

— Antonio Gramsci

“Intellectuals ponder, philosophize, interpret, and all this is essential to our shared experience, however, to feel the warmth of what lays at our feet…

— Mark O'Brien

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and…

— John Dewey

The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

— Talal Asad

An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on…

— John Dewey

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..

— Stanley Fish