My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. . . we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use]. . . instincts as a criteria.
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.
There`s a guy named Richard Spencer, who is the intellectual guru of the movement, according to Breitbart and he says, basically - this is the benign version - that he wants to convince non-whites to leave America because the races can`t get along and it`s better if they`re separate. This is a guy who is of the alt-right movement that Steve Bannon made common cause with.
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.
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.
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.