It Is A Part Of The Intellectual's

The Intellectual Is Engage-he Is Pledged, Committed, Enlisted. What Everyone Else Is Willing To Admit, Namely That Ideas And Abstractions Are Of Signal Importance In Human Life, He Imperatively Feels.

The Tradition Of The New. Yesterday's Avant-gard-experiment Is Today's Chic And Tomorrow's Cliche.

A University Is Not A Service Station. Neither Is It A Political Society, Nor A Meeting Place For Political Societies. With All Its Limitations And Failures, And They Are Invariably Many, It Is The Best And Most Benign Side Of Our Society Insofar As That Society Aims To Cherish The Human Mind.

Intellectualism, Though By No Means Confined To Doubters, Is Often The Sole Piety Of The Skeptic.

It Is The Historic Glory Of The Intellectual Class Of The West In Modern Times That, Of All The Classes Which Could Be Called In Any Sense Privileged, It Has Shown The Largest And Most Consistent Concern For The Well-being Of The Classes Which Lie Below It In The Social Scale.