Intellectual Quotes - Page 28

• All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stupid, Numbers, People

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• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

  David Berlinski

  Religious, Ignorance, Dark

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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• Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future, Ron Baker has again evolved thought leadership on the critical dynamics of value and pricing. Baker's latest work, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value, provides real-world examples and practical strategies that provide a framework for pricing optimization. His clarity of purpose and passionate call to action resonates in today's intellectual capital economy.

  Thomas Finneran

  Real, Clarity Of Purpose, Creating

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

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• Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

  Luis Fernando Verissimo

  Dog, Fighting, Teeth

  Luís Fernando Veríssimo (2004). “Borges and the eternal orang-utans”, Vintage

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• All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Honor, Needs, Noble

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary Ashton Livermore, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1884). “Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times ...”

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• Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Fighting, Israel, People

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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Color, Agility

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  Saadi

  God, Next, Fear God

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• Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

  Mary Renault

  Blessing, Boredom, Missing

  Mary Renault (2014). “North Face: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

  Edward Abbey

  Hero, Army, Men

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• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Philosophy, School

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

  Edward Abbey

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Levels, Affair

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Revenge

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  B. F. Skinner

  Memories, Men, Thinking

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• If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
  is to win an intellectual argument,
  then you admit the right to silence people by force.

  Hans Eysenck

  Winning, People, Silence

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• Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Mind, Climate

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• Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

  Jacques Barzun

  Swings, Privilege, Opinion

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Inspire, Mind

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.

  Max Horkheimer

  Mean, Fate, Men

  Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.126, A&C Black

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• The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Cutting, Men, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.196, Routledge

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• You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

  Thomas Harris

  Vanity, Appeals

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• The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

  Ronald Reagan

  California, Curiosity, States

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