Intellectual Life

Greed probably figures in

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

Research must continue to

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

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 … Read more

No vital Christianity is

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. D. Elton Trueblood

And what, then, is

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

Is there intellectual life

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

History not used is

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. Arnold J. Toynbee

One of the unspoken

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. Annia Ciezadlo

An intellectual is a

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

All ethics so far

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