#intellect

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#common #common sense #intellectuals #many #pistol

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. ↗

— Helen Garner

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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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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

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. ↗

— Alan Moore

#home #intellect #leave #sword #without

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair. ↗

— Tom Shales

#intellect #maybe #teeth

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#because #came #class #curious #enjoying