Intellectual Quotes

• The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

  

  William Golding
  • Conviction
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large cast of characters and traces an ongoing conversation among the writers and critics of this period. This book is likely to become a model for a new generation of scholars, both for the breadth of its engagement and the depth of its archival research.

  

  Werner Sollors
  • Writing
  • Generation
  • Engagement

• But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little inspiration... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.

  

  Joseph Needham
  • Inspiration
  • Intellectual

• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Wonderful
  • Intellectual

• Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Beer

• Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Philosophy
  • Intellectual
  • Punk

• For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Intellectual
  • Limit
  • Powers

• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Intellectual
  • Optimism
  • Effects

• Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Brain
  • Painting
  • Needs

• Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Pleasure

• That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Serious
  • Trauma
  • Manifestation

• Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual
  • Voting

• I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Emotional
  • Feels
  • Difficulty

• Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires a human level of intelligence, but it doesn't require that one be an intelligent human.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Moral
  • Intellectual
  • Virtues

• Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Moral
  • Standing
  • Justify

• Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Feels
  • Intellectual

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