"Hermes: All knowledge is incorporeal, using the mind as an instrument, just as the mind uses the body. Both then come…"

"Furthermore, in each and every compound body there is number. For without number it is impossible for combination, co…"

"However, there are ways of trying to strangle ideas they do not involve straight forward attempts at censorship or in…"

"The explicit distinction between those who are fit only to study and those who are history’s actors not only expresse…"

"First and foremost among the vectors of anti-intellectualism are the mass media."

"It is not that television, or any of its successors in the world of video, was designed as an enemy of active intelle…"

"Well-off professionals, including a fair number of intellectuals, have proved especially vulnerable to the bromide th…"

"It is a fine thing for tired parents to gain a quiet hour for themselves by mesmerizing small children with videos—wh…"

"Memory, which depends on the capacity to absorb ideas and information through exposition and to connect new informati…"

"The second major spur to anti-intellectualism during the past forty years has been the resurgence of fundamentalist r…"