Quotes by Intellectual Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood. C. S. Lewis fashion intellectual acceptance God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker. C. S. Lewis slacker intellectual religion The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. C. S. Lewis intellectual clever sweet To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. C. S. Lewis intellectual simple philosophy 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 intellectual spiritual faces The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. C. West Churchman intellectual answers math The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker. C. Wright Mills communication intellectual mean We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. Calvin Coolidge vision intellectual spiritual Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. Camille Paglia intellectual answers america What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. Camille Paglia generations intellectual people In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. Camille Paglia twenties intellectual years Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition. Camille Paglia feminism intellectual men French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe. Camille Paglia tradition speak intellectual The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia encounters style intellectual 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. Carl Hiaasen energy intellectual past The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases. Carl Jung intellectual monsters attitude Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself. Carl Jung individual succeed intellectual The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things. Carl Jung understanding intellectual mind History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. Carl L. Becker form intellectual history ...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective. Carl von Clausewitz intellectual giving men «678910111213141516»