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Defining Intellectuals

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“If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual and Michelangelo is not.”

-Umberto Eco

“In the political jargon of those days, the word “intellectual” was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people”

-Milan Kundera

4 COMMENTS

  1. you may ask my wife. she tells me she’s good at separating the intellectuals from the manufacturing class.

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