Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body. He showed us that just because music was innately physical did not mean that it... was anti-intellectual. He had the vision and the talent to make a pop record that contained the whole world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of political... discourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were the ... requirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non...intellectuals have never stirred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is co...mmonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Germans--once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intelle...ct, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things--Deutschland, Deutschland ÃÅber alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the w...ay of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne...ss of vision, which may be better understood by the term sprightliness of imagination, which has enabled them to discern, or at least to recognize those smaller springs of action that regulate the conduct of mankind, which, from their supposed insignificancy, have escaped the grosser sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was asked to-night why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won't. 1. I am not an int...ellectual. Two minutes' talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »