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Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

Richard Hofstadter
Lying, Intellectual, Quests
Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.

Richard Hofstadter
Lying, Class, Intellectual
Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage

To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.

Richard Hofstadter
Lying, Skills, Ideas
Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.31, Vintage

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