#elle

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#conviction #greater #i #intellectual #known

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth--all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#detached #disturbed #madness #outlook #outlook-in-life

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. ↗

— Jeremy London

#drums #excellent #guitar #i #play

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#also #alternative #conservative #could #criticism

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. ↗

— Natalie Massenet

#before #california #degree #english #english literature

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. ↗

— John Milius

#either #storyteller #writer #you

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#attitude #blessings #life #optimist #outlook

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#argument #collapsed #design #dover #intellectually