Intellectual Life Quotes

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.