“That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.” IfsThinkingKnowsBelieveMayAbleI BelieveTermReligiousTroubleAtheismProudIntellectualUnderstoodAtheistPositive AtheismActiveWelcomeIf I CouldThere Is No GodDakotaLutheransNorth DakotaJamestown Author:Rodney Stark
“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.” PeopleMenLoveGivingWholeRunningPassionLostWaterLove IsAttentionPlansTroubleTreeSeaAdviceHe ManLoversIntellectualRemainsOilAshamedShadeRunning AwayDrowningReposeShowing OffLove Is LikeLove PassionGiving AdviceGetting LostMuskAlways AloneRomantic Passion Book:Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.” IfsMenMindShowsBodyPoorPrinciplesTroubleMaterialsFameIntellectualRegardFleshRulingThyselfDwellingImpurity Book:Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Source: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.” IfsKindSaidI CanMightTroubleIntellectualBritishLondonJournalistCrewScotlandMassachusettsUnforgivable Author:William Monahan
“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