Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Part 1, ch. 2 "On the Unpopularity of Intellect" (1962) - Hofstadter, Richard | WIST Quotations
The case against intellect is founded upon a set of fictional and wholly abstract antagonisms. Intellect is pitted against feeling, on the ground it is somehow inconsistent with warm emotion. It is pitted against character, because it is widely believed that intellect stands for mere cleverness, which transmutes easily into…
