The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.
A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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