Best Intellectual Life Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”

Author:Thomas Mann

“There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.”

Culture Modern Intellectual Guilt Western Acknowledge Native Treatment Western Culture Intellectual Life

Author:Steven Pinker

“The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.”

Men Ideas Divine Poet Intellectual Sacred Greek Fixed Spokes Priests Origin Of Life Intellectual Life

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

People Thinking Positive Solitude Concern Self Reliance Reliance Meanness Intellectual Life

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.”

“Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.”

“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”

Knows Soul Purpose Fall Grief Struggle Activity Intellectual Seeds Worldly Serene Supremacy Absorbing Annoyance Intellectual Life

Author:George Eliot

“Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.”

Virtue Theory Intellectual Areas Speculation Academia Intellectual Life

Author:Michael Crichton

“The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.”

World Form Order Personality Truth Is Intellectual Intellectual Life

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.”

Self Stars Opinion Stage Intellectual Hollywood Importance Ridiculous Existentialism Absurdity Obscene Self-importance Infantile Stalinism Intellectual Life Lacan Derrida Pomposity

Book:Chomsky Notebook

Source: Chomsky Notebook

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”

People Thinking Inspirational May Whole Greatness Solitude Intellectual Concern Distinction Self Reliance Reliance Meanness Intellectual Life

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.”

Problem Grows Education Growing Intellectual Research Commitment Intellectual Life Centerpieces

Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

“History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.”

Ifs Wells Use Might Action Life Is Used Stuff Intellectual Historical Practicals Intellectual Life Practical Life

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them”

Humans Children Social Grows Process Intellectual Intellectual Life

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.”

Literature Nations Intellectual Essence Comprehensive Intellectual Life

Author:William Shakespeare

“The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.”

Should Goal Intellectual Orthodoxy Prevailing Intellectual Life

Author:Jeffrey Tucker

“Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.”

Wells Figures Information Amount Intellectual Greed Massive Indigestion Intellectual Life

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”

People Ifs Knows Knowing Intellectual Urges Intellectual Life

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.”

Christian Three Christianity Intellectual Aspect Devotion Rationality Inner Life Intellectual Life

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.”

Men Action Form Conditions Return Elements Intellectual Towns Productions Soil Lasting Clothings Capitalist Farming Consumed Fertility Intellectual Life Labourers

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)