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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.


Manuel Puig


#complement #each #i #i think #intellectual

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.


Camille Paglia


#body #everybody #her #his #however

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.


Camille Paglia


#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.


Talcott Parsons


#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.


Walter Pater


#age #culture #different #forms #intellectual

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.


Steven Pinker


#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.


Steven Pinker


#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.


Harold Pinter


#arts #british #especially #force #gets

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.


Robert M. Pirsig


#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.


Ruth Pitter


#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall






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