{"quotes":[{"text":"Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.","author":"Fulton J. Sheen","tags":["god","humility","intellectuals","sinners"],"id":6937,"author_id":"Fulton+J.+Sheen"},{"text":"Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- 'a bewildering and vexing question.","author":"Harold Cruse","tags":["black-americans","black-intellectuals","class","culture","culture-and-imperialism","independence","independent-thought","intellectuals","marxism","nationalism","race","race-in-america","self-awareness","self-understanding"],"id":20849,"author_id":"Harold+Cruse"},{"text":"Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.","author":"Perry Anderson","tags":["accuracy","banality","falsity","ideas","intellectuals","morals","truth"],"id":23005,"author_id":"Perry+Anderson"},{"text":"What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy?","author":"Daniel J. Flynn","tags":["conservative","intellectuals","philosophy","politics"],"id":23388,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Flynn"},{"text":"Notwithstanding the memories of slavery, and in the face poverty, ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation still deeply woven into their lives, the embittered past of blacks was taken onto a much higher plane of intellectual and artistic consideration during the Renaissance.","author":"Clement Alexander Price","tags":["african-american-artists","african-american-","african-american-music","african-literature","creative-genius","demograghic-shifts","harlem-renaissance","harlem-renaissance-historians","intellectuals","moral-victories","oppression","poverty","slavery","terrorism"],"id":34398,"author_id":"Clement+Alexander+Price"},{"text":"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.","author":"Edward Said","tags":["civilization","death","democracy","destruction","empire","enlighten","exceptionalism","force","imperialism","intellectuals","misery","mission","mission-civilizatrice"],"id":46157,"author_id":"Edward+Said"},{"text":"A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["diet","entertainment","food","intellect","intellectuals","television","tv"],"id":46636,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["falsehood","goal","guru","honesty","humility","intellectuals","meaning","practicality","practicality-for-intellectuals","pretentiousness","profound","purpose","sage","truth","usefulness","wisdom","wise-man"],"id":48001,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["awareness","awareness-and-attitude","awareness-of-life","awareness-of-the-problem","awareness","be-social","boosts","collaborative","communication","confidence","confidence-and-attitude","confidence-boost","confidence-building","confidence","digital-age","digital-citizens","digital-citizenship","digital-footprint","digital-marketing","effective","facebook","force","germany-kent","germany-kent","germany-kent","go-social","hope","hope-and-encouraging","hope-for-each-day","hope-guru","hope","hopeful","hopeful","importance","important","increases","intellect","intellectual","intellectuals","intelligence","intelligence","intelligent","interactive","internet","internet-addiction","internet-and-social-media","internet-etiquette","internet-manners","internet-marketing","lifestyle","netiquette","netiquette-words","new-way","new-way-of-life","new-way-of-thinking","new-ways","new-ways-of-thinking","non-traditional","opinion","personal-growth","personal-growth","personal-growth","philosophy","pinterest","possibilities","possibility","psychological","psychology","reverse-psychology","self-development","self-realization","self-realization","social","social-behavior","social-change","social-good","social-media","social-media-101","social-media-advice","social-media-audiences","social-media-marketing","social-media-mind","social-networking","social-networking-accounts","social-networking-site","social-networking-sites","social-networking-support","social-networking-virtual","social-selling","stimulation","strategic-thinking","strategies","strategies","strategies-that-work","tactics","the-hope-guru","therapy","therapy-truth","thinking-outside-of-the-box","truth","twitter","you-are-what-you-tweet","youtube","youtube-personality","youtube-users","youtube-views"],"id":61791,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.","author":"John Brockman","tags":["accomplishments","american","ignorance","intellectuals","reactionary","significance"],"id":76505,"author_id":"John+Brockman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}