See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés science truth honesty lies integrity values scholars academia treason oxford falsification veracity
A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
Mark William RocheMots clés academia
The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.
Paul GoodmanMots clés man academia anthropology
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.
Sergio de la PavaMots clés service doing academia debate intellectualism production arguing
So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus itself was threatened. Ordinary intra-mural and extra-mural leaking, to such duly constituted bodies as Congress, was getting out of hand. It was Kissinger who inaugurated the second front or home front of the war; illegally wiretapping the telephones even of his own staff and of his journalistic clientele. (I still love to picture the face of Henry Brandon when he found out what his hero had done to his telephone.) This war against the enemy within was the genesis of Watergate; a nexus of high crime and misdemeanour for which Kissinger himself, as Isaacson wittily points out, largely evaded blame by taking to his ‘shuttle’ and staying airborne. Incredibly, he contrived to argue in public with some success that if it were not for democratic distempers like the impeachment process his own selfless, necessary statesmanship would have been easier to carry out. This is true, but not in the way that he got newspapers like Rees-Mogg’s Times to accept.
Christopher HitchensMots clés politics democracy foreign-policy united-states journalism diplomacy crime academia propaganda vietnam consensus vietnam-war henry-kissinger the-times impeachment united-states-congress foreign-policy-of-the-us richard-nixon walter-isaacson watergate henry-brandon news-leaks william-rees-mogg wiretapping
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
Henry KissingerMots clés academia university
The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions
Nassim Nicholas TalebMots clés einstein academia freud institutions darwin marxism modern-life modernity academics
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
Nassim Nicholas TalebMots clés education school academia
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
Nassim Nicholas TalebMots clés art arts creativity criticism artists academia critics art-history academics
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas TalebMots clés imagination art genius criticism artist academia nerd nerds genius-stupidity critics nerdery
« ; premier précédent
Page 4 de 6.
suivant dernier » ;
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.