Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist “To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.” Men Alive Intellectual ♥ 3
Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist “Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.” Spiritual Responsibility Intellectual ♥ 3
Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst “We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.” Children Levels Intellectual ♥ 3
Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist “Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.” Attention Intellectual Degrees ♥ 3
Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist “The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.” Today Intellectual Unions ♥ 3
Robert Frost Poet “I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.” Kids Intellectual Cowboy ♥ 3
RH Robert Hughes Art Critic, Author “Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.” World Political Intellectual ♥ 3
Stefan Zweig Writer “Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.” Understanding Intellectual Psychology ♥ 3
Stefan Zweig Writer “Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.” Suffering History Intellectual ♥ 3
Stefan Zweig Writer “But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible.” Real History Intellectual ♥ 3
Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist “If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.” Would Be Challenges Intellectual ♥ 3
Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist “The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.” Phones Humorous Intellectual ♥ 3
