Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957) American philosopher
Chap XXXI.
The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War (1918)
Les intellos Speak http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_11_10_04td.html (November 10, 2004). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957) American philosopher
Chap XXXI.
The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War (1918)
“You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.”
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Notebooks (1942–1951)
Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) American geographer
Robinson (1965) as cited in: Matthew H. Edney (2008) " Putting “Cartography” into the History of Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a Discipline https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10214/1830/36-Edney.pdf?sequence=1"
Alan Bean (1932–2018) American astronaut and painter
Statement on significations in his painting "Reaching for the Stars", at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, Florida, USA.
After the moon, art is his mission (1997)
“Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that
religions can cause.”
Carlton Mellick III (1977) American writer
Source: Satan Burger
“See also The Closing of the American Mind.”
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) American philosopher, classicist, and academician
Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) American journalist
Source: Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 34
Context: Our preceptors were gentlemen as well as scholars. There was not a grain of sentimentalism in the institution; on the other hand, the place was permeated by a profound sense of justice. … An equalitarian and democratic regime must by consequence assume, tacitly or avowedly, that everybody is educable. The theory of our regime was directly contrary to this. Our preceptors did not see that doctrines of equality and democracy had any footing in the premises. They did not pretend to believe that everyone is educable, for they knew, on the contrary, that very few are educable, very few indeed. They saw this as a fact of nature, like the fact that few are six feet tall. … They accepted the fact that there are practicable ranges of intellectual and spiritual experience which nature has opened to some and closed to others.
Thomas J. J. Altizer (1927–2018) American radical theologian
Toward a New Christianity (1967), p. 7