Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and s...oldier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degener...ate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hope...s of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen in...to truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unh...onored, and unpaid task of observation.... He is the world's eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a big constructive imagination; here was a mere doctor laying bare the origins of Greek drama as no classical scholar had... ever done, teaching the anthropologist what was really meant by his totem and taboo, probing the mysteries of sin, of sanctity, of sacrament--a man who, because he understood, purged the human spirit from fear. I have no confidence in psycho-analysis as a method of therapeutics ... but I am equally sure that for generations almost every branch of human knowledge will be enriched and illumined by the imagination of Freud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In dealings with scholars and artists we are apt to miscalculate in opposite directions: behind a remarkable scholar we sometimes,... and not infrequently, find a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, fairly often--a very remarkable man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, dressing gown--how much beer there is in the German intelligence! How is it at... all possible that young men who dedicate their lives to the most spiritual goals do not feel the first instinct of spirituality, the spirit's instinct of self-preservation--and drink beer?... The alcoholism of the young scholars is perhaps no question mark concerning their scholarliness--without spirit one can still be a great scholar--but in every other respect it remains a problem.--Where would one not find the gentle degeneration which beer produces in the spirit?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »