Intellectualism Quotes - Page 2

• In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

  Oscar Wilde

  Struggle, Silly, Mind

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Philosophical, Culture, Systematic

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• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

  William James

  Truth, Real, Thinking

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.78, 谷月社

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• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Learning, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

  Chick Corea

  Truth, Simple, Feel Good

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• Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, America, Pseudo Intellectuals

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• Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Retrospect, Businessman

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• To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Firsts, Sides

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1911). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Halls, Seminary

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• Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Mean, Doubters, Sole

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

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• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Hippie, Reading, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

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• The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is often a mask, perhaps unconscious, for underlying anti-intellectualism or antiscientism.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Religious, Real, Teaching

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

  Harold Clurman

  Beautiful, Girl, Legs

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• Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Heart, Cutting

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• On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winter, People, Valleys

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy, Maximilian A. Mügge, Robert Guppy (1911). “The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation”

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• The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.
  Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  Anne LaBastille

  Good Life, Reflection, Opportunity

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• Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

  William James

  Character, Mind, World

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, Ideas, Apples

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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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• Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Degrees, Hemlock, Gowns

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.20, Vintage

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• ... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

  William James

  Intellect, Shows, Effects

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.449, Library of America

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• When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Pieces, Anti Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

  Os Guinness

  Mind, Disposition, Importance

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