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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff – well, it might as well be dead.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

One of the unspoken themes that I’m grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It’s one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It’s another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

There’s a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life??the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within??can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them