A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. --SPIRO AGNEW, Denouncing Moratorium Day protest against Vietnam War; in NY "Times," 20 Oct 69
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims. -- Jakob Burckhardt
No ages are worse, no places more corrupt, than those that draw the iridescent film of an intellectual culture over the deep stagnancy of moral degredation. F.W. Farrar (said of Tarsus) in Life & Work of Saint Paul, p.16
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. F A Hayek, The Fatal Conceit. p153
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology. Robert Heinlein
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
Eric Hoffer First Things, Last Things, p. 65.
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his own vanity. Godlike, he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh _The Wave of the Future_ [1940]
Like most intellectuals, he is imensely stupid. -- Marquise de Merteuil
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.-- Ludwig von Mises
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.-- Francis Schaeffer, letter:, 2 Mar 1959
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