“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.” WarStatesLevelsMoralDangerousMassIntellectualLowsEntityAntisocial Author:Christian Lous Lange
“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.” MindPersonsStatesReasonCausesAwarenessParticularBuddhismIntellectualProgramAttractionState Of MindFormatAversion Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.” StatesIndividualDifferencesStudentsIntellectualBarsRestrictionRefusal Author:Fred M. Vinson
“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.” StatesRealitySeemsJoyEffortSorrowIntellectualConsciousAppreciateInvisibleInevitableCompareAspirationIncapableAttainmentUnthinkable Book:Proust Source: Proust
“The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.” IfsMenMindStatesPlaySeemsFormUnitedQualityUnited StatesDangerousIntellectualVariousPracticalsLuxuryManifestationIndulgencePietyPlayfulness Author:Richard Hofstadter