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"Reading Chomsky in debate is rather like watching a beached whale thrashing about.",
"The idea of genius, elaborated by German romantics, is destructive; it is a flight into fantasy, like Nazism. There is reason to believe we have killed classical music because of our prejudices on genius and creativity. People are being brownbeaten into believing that unless they can be geniuses like Beethoven they might as well quit. But look at the Baroque Age - there were hundreds of little Italians who wrote good music and did not give a hoot about being a creative genius.",
"Every mathematician has only a few tricks.",
"The more experimental scientists and engineers are, the more common sense they have, and so on until you get to the mathematicians, who are totally devoid of common sense.",
"Computer science has become too important to be left to engineers.",
"You are not alone in believing that your own field is better and more promising than those of your colleagues. We all believe the same about our own fields. But our beliefs cancel each other out. Better keep your mouth shut, rather than making yourself obnoxious. (...) All public shows of disunity are ultimately fatal to the well-being of mathematics.",
"No mathematical problem is ever solved directly. You must manage to look at the surroundings, at the company it keeps. Eventually, with the assistance of the Holy Ghost, you might be able to see through your problem.",
" What is most characteristic of the West is  science, particularly understood as the quest to know nature and the consequent denigration of convention - i.e., the culture or the West understood as culture - in favor of what is accessible to all men as men through their common common and distinctive faculty, reason. Science's latest attempts to grasp the human situation - cultural relativism, historism, the fact-value distinction - are the suicide of science. Culture, hence closedness, reigns supreme. Openness to closedness is what we teach.",
"The attempt to preserve old cultures in the New World  is superficial because it ignores that real differences between men are based on real differences in beliefs about good and evil, about what is highest, about God. Differences in dress and food are either of no interest or are secondary expressions of deeper beliefs. The 'ethnic' differences in the United States are but decaying reminiscences of old differences that caused our ancestors to kill one another. The animating principle, their soul has disappeared from them. The ethnic festivals are just superficial displays of clothes, dances and foods from the old country. One has to be quite ignorant of the splendid 'cultural' past in order to be charmed by these insipid  folkloric manifestations.",
"Creativity and personality take the place of older words like virtue, industry, rationality and character , affect our judgements, provide us with educational goals. They are the burgeois' way of not being burgeois. Hence they are sources of snobishness and pretentiousness alien to our real virtues. We have a lot of good engineers, but very few good artists. All the support, however, goes to the latter, or rather, one should say, those who stand in for the latter in the eyes of many. The real artists don't need this kind of support and are instead weakened by it. The money-maker is not the most appetizing personality, but he is far preferable to the intellectual phony.",
"Would 'living exactly as I please' be speakable as a substitute for 'life-style'? Would 'my opinion' do for 'values'? 'My prejudices' for 'my ideology'? Could 'rabble rousin' or 'simply divine' stand in for 'charisma'?",
"As an image of our current intellectual condition, I keep being reminded of a newsreel picture of Frenchmen splashing happily in the water at the seashore, enjoying the annual paid vacations legislated by Leon Blum's Popular Front government. It was 1936, the same year Hitler was permitted to occupy the Rhineland. All our big causes amount to that kind of vacation.",
"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.",
"The direct, conscious attack on intellectual decency comes from intellectuals themselves.",
"Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought.",
"The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at the bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies. What is really at issue is the right to report the contemporary events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.",
"Almost nobody in our own day can speak as roundly in favour of intellectual liberty as Milton could do three hundreds year ago and this in spite of the fact that Milton was writing in a period of civil war.",
"Pacifist literature abounds with equivocal remarks which, if they mean anything, appear to mean that statesmen of the type of Hitler are preferable to those of the type of Churchill, and that violence is perhaps excusable if it is violent enough. After the fall of France, the French pacifists, faced by a real choice which their English colleagues have not had to make, mostly went over to the Nazis, and in England there appears to have been some small overlap of membership between the Peace Pledge Union and the Blackshirts. Pacifist writers have written in praise of Carlyle, one of the intellectual fathers of Fascism. All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty. The mistake was made of pinning this emotion to Hitler, but it could easily be retransfered.",
"Intellectuals are the most power-hungry stratum of any society. They crave total power. (...) They hate anyone else who might be viewed as being in power. Even if they are in power as they are today, they still view themselves as an opposition, as underdogs, as victims. Second, although they crave absolute power, they do not accept any responsibility for exercising it. You can say, if you wish, that it is self-destructive tendency, but only from an objective viewpoint. Thus, objectively, their theories and actions usually lead to destruction  of the society. They just refuse to see themselves as a part of it.",
"By all means mathematicians should learn all the pure mathematics they want. But they must also learn applications. Get to be an expert in either the social sciences or in computer science.",
"Without spirit one can still be a great scholar.",
"Why the stupid are so often malicious - When our head feels too weak to answer the objections of our opponent, our heart answers by casting suspicion on the motives behind his objections.",
"On the whole, scientific methods are at least as important as any other result of research:  for it is upon the insight into method that the scientific spirit depends:  and if these methods were lost, then all the results of science could not prevent a renewed triumph of superstition and nonsense.  Clever people may learn as much as they wish of the results of science - still one will always notice in their conversation, and especially in their hypotheses, that they lack the scientific spirit; they do not have that instinctive mistrust of the aberrations of thought which through long training are deeply rooted in the soul of every scientific person.",
"Hypocrisy belongs in the ages of strong faith when, even though constrained to display another  faith, one did not abandon one's own faith. Today one does abandon it; or, even more commonly, one adds a second faith - and in either case one remains honest. Without a doubt, a very much greater number of convictions is possible today than formerly: possible means permissible, which means harmless. This begets tolerance toward oneself. - Tolerance toward oneself permits several convictions and they get along with each other: they are careful, like all the rest of the world, not to compromise themselves. How does one compromise oneself  today? If one is consistent. If one proceeds in a straight line. If one is not ambiguous enough to permit five conflicting interpretations.  If one is genuine ... I fear greatly that modern man is simply too comfortable for some vices, so that they virtually die out.",
"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.",
"Tourists - They climb mountains like animals, stupid and sweating; one has forgotten to tell them that there are beautiful views on the way up.",
"In the 1970s the 'New York Times Magazine' reported the discovery of the 'gentle Tasaday' of the Philippine rainforest, a people with no words for conflict, violence or weapons. The Tasaday turned out to be local farmers dressed in leaves for a photo opportunity so that cronies of Ferdinand Marcos could set aside their 'homeland' as a preserve and enjoy exclusive mineral and logging rights.",
"One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent months is the folk song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against, like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on. But the nicest thing about a protest song is that it makes you feel so good. ",
"Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days in books,and plays,and movies on, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love. Husbands and wives who can't communicate; children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books, and plays, and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate the very least he can do is to shut up.",
"Scientists are as vigorous in complaining about the incomprehensibility of others' scientific papers as they are lazy in clarifying their own.",
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.",
"Intellectual agnosticism is, in reality, very close to cowardice. The agnostic who claims that his is the more courageous course, that it is easy to jump to a conclusion but hard to keep one's head and 'see clearly' despite the mists of passion and prejudice - this man is deceiving himself. It is, on the contrary, easy to reflect on the complexity and many-sidedness of the issues that confront one, and to conclude that no man is capable of seeing the whole truth. What is hard is to hold the evidence clearly in mind and keep it there, persistently turning it over and integrating it until the conclusion emerges.",
"Paradoxically we are less intelligent than we were when we couldn't fly and go to Mars, when we could not replace a severed arm or a lost eye or a diseased heart, when we could not clone a sheep or ourselves. We are less lucid, less awake, than we were when didn't have schools accessible to everybody, informations available to everybody, technologies which removing the torment of hunger and the fear of tomorrow make life easier for everybody. When this cornucopia didn't exist, we had to solve things all by ourselvels. Thus we had to force ourselves to rationalize, to think with our own heads. Not today. Because even in the small daily things our current society provides already-taken decisions, already-taken solutions. Solutions wrapped up like pre-cooked food. 'We are thinking for you. So you don't have to' says a chilling caption that flashes up in a corner of the TV screen when I select the 'Science and Science Fiction' channel.",
"Their Houses are very ill built, the Walls bevil without one right Angle in any Apartment; and this Defect ariseth from the Contempt they bear to practical Geometry; which they despise as vulgar and mechanick, those Instructions they give being too refined for the Intellectuals of their Workmen; which occasions perpetual Mistakes. And although they are dextrous enough upon a Piece of Paper in the Management of the Rule, the Pencil, and the Divider, yet in the common Actions and Behaviour of Life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy People, nor so slow and perplexed in their Conceptions upon all other Subjects, except those of Mathematicks and Musick. They are very bad Reasoners, and vehemently given to Opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right Opinion, which is seldom their Case.",
"But, what I chiefly admired, and thought altogether unaccountable, was the strong Disposition I observed in them towards News and Politicks, perpetually enquiring into public Affairs, giving their Judgments in Matters of State; and passionately disputing every Inch of a Party Opinion. I have indeed observed the same Disposition among most of the Mathematicians I have known in Europe; although I could never discover the least Analogy between the two Sciences; unless those People suppose, that because the smallest Circle hath as many Degrees as the largest, therefore the Regulation and Management of the World require no more Abilities than the handling and turning of a Globe. But, I rather take this Quality to spring from a very common Infirmity of human Nature, inclining us to be more curious and conceited in Matters where we have least Concern, and for which we are least adapted either by Study or Nature.",
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.",
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.",
"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.",
"There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.",
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money as well.",
"When I grew up in The Bronx, there were street gangs. You mostly stayed away from them, and, if you really had to, you fought with them. But I never remember anyone saying, 'Gee, maybe if we just talk with them ...' Nor do I remember, in two decades as a prosecutor, anyone saying, 'Y'know, maybe if we just talk with these Mafia guys, we could achieve some kind of understanding ...'",
"In affairs like law suits or even in arguments, by losing quickly one will lose in fine fashion. It is like sumo. If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.",
"Scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.");

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