Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.
Benjamin JowettTags: atheism intellectuals gods aristophanes oracles
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
David HarsanyiTags: intellectuals academics
Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if they were ushered in to witness the scene.
Matthew ScullyTags: intellectuals
He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: intellectuals
I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers.
I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.
Tags: fashion spirituality intellectuals clothing coffee farmers
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: thinking intellectuals
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George OrwellTags: intellectuals intellectual intellectualism
Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.
Christopher HitchensTags: intellectuals marxism leon-trotsky trotskyism
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
Luis Fernando VerissimoTags: humour intellectuals
What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy?
Daniel J. FlynnTags: politics philosophy intellectuals conservative
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