Richard Hofstadter Quotes About Piety

Quotes about: Piety

• Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Mean, Doubters, Sole

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

• To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Lying, Skills, Ideas

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.31, Vintage

• The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Men, Play, Luxury

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter (p. 33), 1974.

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