Weston La Barre Quotes

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

Weston La Barre

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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
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• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Eye
  • Should
  • Contemporary

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Think
  • Listen
  • Intellectual

• Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Man
  • Say
  • Contemporary

• To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Intellectual
  • Alienated

• But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Country
  • Intellectual
  • Italy

• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Intellectual

• Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Alone
  • Gift
  • Intellectual

• Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Intellectual
  • Isolation

• Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Character
  • Science
  • Development

• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Expression

• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Justice
  • Authority
  • Tyranny

• Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Strong
  • Opinion
  • Serious

• The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Music
  • Interest
  • Rhythm

• Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Spiritual
  • Faces

• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Opinion
  • Drama
  • Criticism

• I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Believe
  • Individual
  • Blind

• The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

  

  William Muir
  • Tragedy
  • Decided
  • Kingdoms

• I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Stories
  • Beginnings

• It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

  

  Norman MacCaig
  • Person
  • Conversation
  • Addressed

• Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

  

  Weston La Barre
  • Intellectual
  • Tyranny
  • Contemporary