"The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live."

"Well, I suppose we have to have young intellectuals, if we’re ever to survive to be middle-aged philosophers."

"Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois …"

"Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple…"

"There are, indeed, few things that are more frightening than the steadily increasing prestige of scientifically minde…"

"Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accide…"

"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in…"

"“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because …"

"A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence."

"Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human min…"