Intellectual Quotes — Page 39

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.”

May Intellectual Floating

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.”

Years Intellectual Imf

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I don't like the intellectual label.”

Intellectual Labels

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.”

Intellectual Truism

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.”

People Intellectual Educational

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.”

Said Intellectual Honorable

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.”

Generations Intellectual Faculty Members

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and intellectual structures are learned. I think that this assumption is wrong. None of these structures is learned. They all grow; they grow in comparable ways; their ultimate forms are heavily dependent on genetic predispositions.”

Thinking Way Intellectual

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.”

World Intellectual Crime

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“As to whether those who fit the common meaning of the term "intellectual" should act in the manner that [ Edward] Said prescribes, that's another question. Needless to say, I agree with him that they should, and that they commonly do not.”

Intellectual Common Fit

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”

Alive Intellectual Poetic

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.”

Fall Vision Intellectual

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