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Intellectual
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous. Left free, there is nothing it will not reconsider, analyze, throw into question. "Let us admit the case of the conservative," John Dewey once wrote. "If we once start thinking no one can guarantee what will be the outcome, except that many ob
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― Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
― Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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