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Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
Steven Pinker
Today
Mind
Phobia
Genetics
Most
Intellectuals
Any
Explanation
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker
Confusion
Endeavor
Believe
Humanities
Think
Kind
Exalted
Higher
Leads
Intellectuals
Human
Artists
Arts
Form
Themselves
Elite
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Live
Mediocrity
State
Arab
Stature
Touching
Generalized
Bottom
Because
Without
Intellectuals
Pit
Suspended
International
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Speak
World
Respected
Arab
Recognized
Out
Arab World
Writers
Outside
Intellectuals
Loved
Us
Who
Many
Internationally
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
People
Arab
Gulf
Between
Intellectuals
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
Terry Eagleton
Seen
Important
Revolution
Society
Distaste
Indeed
Reconstruct
Anglo-Saxon
Rational
Attempt
Abstract
Bound
Supposed
Particularly
French
Principles
French Revolution
Source
Foreigners
Up
Intellectuals
Closely
Which
Dislike
Prejudice
Averse
Basis
British
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.
Terry Teachout
Beautiful
You
Respect
World
Important
Busy
Too
Our
Rarely
Hustling
More
Catch
Over
Make
Off
Blood
Intellectuals
Very
Trying
Hands
Anyone
Stained
Us
Paint
Ink
Nearest
France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.
Theodore Zeldin
Feeling
Pay
France
Valued
Give
More
Writers
Attention
Idea
Territory
Intellectuals
Artists
Here
We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.
Timothy Morton
Guilt
Thought
Stupid
Press
Bad
Cheaper
Know
Intellectuals
Much
Button
I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.
Virgil Abloh
Fashion
Believe
About
Between
Intellectuals
Romantic
Interchange
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Will Self
Politics
Meddling
Side
Prominent
Having
Results
Disastrous
Intellectuals
Quite
Often
Which
Public
Flip
Start
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.
Wole Soyinka
Humanity
Insist
Duty
Must
Entity
Remains
Writers
Primary
Development
Thus
Overall
Intellectuals
Human
Asset
Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
Yair Lapid
Life
Truth
People
World
Try
Kind
Find
See
Some
Attempt
Head
Look
Intellectuals
Manage
Cannot
Create
Who
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
Yoko Ono
War
Together
Peace
People
Simple
Other
Unless
Critical
Exactly
Exactly What
Powerful
Know
Talk
Industry
Always
Intellectuals
Very
Going
Just
Want
Who
Even
Each
Conservative voters tend to believe that the 'climate change' agenda has been foisted upon us by an unaccountable lobby of politicised intellectuals.
Roger Scruton
Change
Conservative
Believe
Lobby
Unaccountable
Has-Been
Tend
Voters
Climate
Climate Change
Been
Intellectuals
Agenda
Us
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