#intellect

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

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#conviction #greater #i #intellectual #known

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#cynicism #intellectual #intelligence #substitute

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

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#incapable #intellectuals #like #many #saying

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #life

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others. The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind. ↗

— George Orwell

#poverty #unemployment #education

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in. ↗

— David Brooks

#graduate-school #intellectualism #meritocracy #self-actualization #upper-class