Louise Bogan - Intellectual Quotes

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Louise Bogan

I think that 'intellectuals' cause a great deal of trouble trying to do it all with the mind. It is the heart that counts.

Louise Bogan

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aesthetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Louise Bogan

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Louise Bogan

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

Louise Bogan