#intellectual

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual life

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#celebration #comes #intellectual #moment #psycho

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#emotionally #everybody #fantasy #humour #i

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#answers #being #creates #intellectual #lot

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#after #curiosity #died #fashion #felt

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#growing #growing up #home #i #important

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#curiosity #history #intellectual #intellectual curiosity #love

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#aware #career #depression #during #experience

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

#eternal #fame #fleeting #fragile #glorious