Aristocratic Quote by Richard M. Weaver

“This complete ignorance of the realities, this innocent view of mankind, is what, in my opinion, constitutes the truly aristocratic. For”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its…

— José Ortega y Gasset

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

— George Eliot

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

— Os Guinness

“He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.”

— Gail Carriger

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

— Robert M. Pirsig

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that…

— Donna Tartt

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton