Intellectual Quotes

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex" "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "A scholar is just a library's way of making another library." "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind" "The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing" "Curiosity is the lust of the mind" "Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions" "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows"