Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
On Practice (1937)
“Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.”
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 281.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
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Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Mir schien: Ausgesprochene Unlust, mich über Dinge des praktischen Lebens, Zukunft, Daten, Politik zu unterhalten. Man ist an die intellektuelle Sphäre gebannt wie manchmal Besessene auf die sexuelle, ist von ihr angesaugt.
"Main features of my first impression of hashish" (18 December 1927), On Hashish (2006), p. 21
Main features of my first impression of hashish (1927)
Julien Benda (1867–1956) French essayist
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), p. 151
Mao Zedong book On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
(zh-CN) 以马克思列宁主义的理论思想武装起来的中国共产党，在中国人民中产生了新的工作作风，这主要的就是理论和实践相结合的作风，和人民群众紧密地联系在一起的作风以及自我批评的作风。
1950s, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) physicist and physiologist
"On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 278
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1881)
Context: Every great deed of which history tells us, every mighty passion which art can represent, every picture of manners, of civic arrangements, of the culture of peoples of distant lands or of remote times, seizes and interests us, even if there is no exact scientific connection among them. We continually find points of contact and comparison in our own conceptions and feelings; we get to know the hidden capacities and desires of the mind, which in the ordinary peaceful course of civilised life remain unawakened.
It is not to be denied that, in the natural sciences, this kind of interest is wanting. Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. But intellectual satisfaction we obtain only from a connection of the whole, just from its conformity with law.
“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Imre Lakatos (1921–1974) Hungarian mathematician, philosopher
Sharon Smith (writer) (1956) American historian
A Marxist Case For Intersectionality (2017)
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Attributed in Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile - Things that Gain From Disorder (2012), p. 213.
The earliest known appearance of this quote in print is Walter J. Savitch, Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming (1984), where it is attributed as a "remark overheard at a computer science conference". It circulated as an anonymous saying for more than ten years before attributions to Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut and Yogi Berra began to appear (and later still to various others).
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