“That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.” IdeasAtheismDiseaseExpectationsPositive AtheismExpensesPeculiarConformInfatuation Author:Archibald MacLeish
“The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.” SoulBodyBeliefSubjectsMankindDependsDiseaseCustomsPeculiar Author:Maimonides
“If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.” IfsMindDifferentViewsDiseaseUniqueIntellectualRacismDeserveVarietyCharacteristicsDestructiveCategoriesHistorianPeculiarAnti SemitismUnique Characteristics Author:Paul Johnson
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.” ThinkingFirstsKindMemoriesForgetDiseaseDecidedIllnessAbsenceCurseRelatedCollectivesPeculiarFugitiveCollective Memory Author:Gilles Peress