Intellectual Quotes - page 4

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them. (Herbert Marcuse)
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. View quote
Carroll Quigley
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. View quote
Dan Rather
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. View quote
Immanuel Kant
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. View quote
Albert Einstein
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire. (John Ralston Saul)
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. View quote
Manuel Puig
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. View quote
Manuel Puig
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. View quote
Martha Stout
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context! View quote
Daniel Dennett
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast. View quote
Elie Ducommun
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. (Kevin Mitnick)
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. View quote
Hu Shih
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. View quote
Michael Nesmith