INTELLECTUALS
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There is no inherent reason why the miner, plowman, and milkmaid should not be as intellectual as the poet, auditor, or school teacher.—STUART CHASE, Are Radicals Crazy?
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The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.—DARWIN, Descent of Man
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It has been my observation that the so-called intellectuals are more easily taken in by mass-suggestion than others, because their experience is drawn not from life but—more comfortably—from printed paper.—EINSTEIN
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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.—T. S. ELIOT, The Hollow Men
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Profundity is not a mere matter of intellect.—JOHN GASSNER, Masters of the Drama
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.—A. P. HERBERT
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What a revelation this crisis has been to me in regard to human nature, above all, of the intellectual elite. How quickly and totally have these thinkers, so proud, so jealous of their reason, so imbued with the great principles of liberty and humanity, renounced them and toppled them in the dust! I will not forget it in the sequel when, with peace once more established, I shall be seeing them again professing their ideas, flaunting their spirit, its liberality and its kinships with all that is human.—ROMAIN ROLLAND, I Will Not Rest
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The progress of the world depends upon us. Let us not weary in hope and action: let the intellectuals illuminate the road that the workers have to build. There are different labour gangs. But the object of labour is the same.—ROMAIN ROLLAND, I Will Not Rest
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