“The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.” HumansArtSoulLife IsPassionJusticeRaceIndustryIntellectualUniversalInfiniteMethodWorkersIntuitionQueensHuman RaceOrganizedFeminineDedicatedHumankindBeesPassiveInsectsMasculineSexuallyFertileBroodingIntellectual Life Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.” WayShouldMindHumansFactsPastValuesJusticeHuman BeingsMoralBearsHigherActivityIntellectualConscienceArgumentBasesFundamentalsImpressionFacultyStrongestNatural Selection Book:The Descent of Man Source: The Descent of Man
“The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.” JusticeAnimalMoralProgressIntellectualIdealsKingdomsAspirationAnimal RightsAdvancementRipeBlockedLatentAnimal KingdomKingdom Come Author:Abraham Isaac Kook
“I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.” ThinkingWayNeedsGivingSaidWholeCoursesChallengesJusticePartyCasesTroubleIntellectualExpectationsThirdsDataAlternativesExcellentNonsensePrivacyProtectedWay Of ThinkingSurveillanceInvolvingThird PartiesGpsLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen