“We flatter ourselves by claiming to be rational and intellectual beings, but it would be a great mistake to suppose that men are always guided by reason. We are strange inconsistent creatures, and we act quite as often, perhaps oftener, from prejudice or passion.” — Sir John Lubbock, “Tact,” The Use of Life
“To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.” — Jacob Bronowski, Magic, Science, and Civilization
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“The current wave of anti-intellectualism, then, is more of a discredit to the age than it is an inconvenience for the intellectual.” — Louis Lomax, “The Act and Art of Nonconformity,” The Realist (February 1959)
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