"Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated."

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Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.46, Vintage

Richard Hofstadter

#Excellence Quotes #Needs Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be.”
“It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.”
“I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.”
“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

Source : A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)
“I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.”
“The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.”
“That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

Source : Arnold Lobel, “Books To the Ceiling”

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