“In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.” IfsYearsTodayFiveIntellectualHundredTraditionTwentiesWesternConservativeDialogueAlternativesLiberalismCritiqueTwenty Five Author:Camille Paglia
“I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.” MoralVirtueOughtBattleIntellectualHundredOriginalsExcellenceValuableSuperiorsEsteemOriginalityConquerorOriginal ThoughtMoral Excellence Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to human beings is not examined in school?” KnowsMenHumansArtBookMightSchoolHuman BeingsStudyFailingWrittenStudentsIntellectualHundredAskingInstrumentsAvailableExposedPrincipalSystematicArt And Science Author:Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
“If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.” PeopleIfsYearsFiveDevelopmentIntellectualHundredSocialismPermitEugenicsSocializingIntellectual Development Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.” GirlBlackWatchesRecordsCuttingEmotionalHairAnxietyIntellectualHundredGlassesDinnerNervousRelateFiftyPaleBucksBluntSofasPenguinsPeddlingAnxiety AttacksBartok Author:Woody Allen