#2,908

The social sciences abound in problems that are unintelligible by their very nature to both the American professor and the Marxist intellectual.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,744

The reactionary’s objection is not discussed; it is disdained.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441

#2,421

An extensive card catalog, an imposing library, a serious university, produce today those avalanches of books that contain not one error nor one insight.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#1,936

It does not appear that the humanities, in contrast to the natural sciences, reach a state of maturity where anything idiotic is automatically obvious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,888

To feign knowledge of a subject, it is advisable to adopt its most recent interpretation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,850

Pedantry is the weapon with which the professional protects the interests of his guild.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,820

The pleasant book does not attract the fool unless a pedantic interpretation vouches for it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,690

A tenured professor only succeeds in embalming the ideas that are delivered to him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,640

In the humanities the latest fashion is taken for the current state of the discipline.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,619

Journalism was the cradle of literary criticism.
The university is its tomb.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 268

#1,600

An authentic reader is someone who reads for pleasure the books which everyone else only studies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 266

#1,598

Where he is easy to refute, as in the natural sciences, the imbecile can be useful without being dangerous.
Where he is difficult to refute, as in the humanities, the imbecile is dangerous without being useful.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 265

#1,595

When an author is put on a school’s syllabus, his name lives and his work dies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 265

#1,586

The abuse of the printing press is due to the scientific method and the expressionist aesthetic.
To the former because it allows any mediocre person to write a correct and useless monograph, and to the latter because it legitimizes the effusions of any fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264

#1,380

He who teaches end up believing that he knows.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 235

#1,356

Languages were corrupted yesterday thanks to ignorant peasants.
Today they are corrupted by the pedantry and carelessness of the uncultivated specialist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,268

Culture lives from being a diversion and dies from being a profession.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,031

Teaching exempts one from the obligation to learn.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 184

#965

To feel capable of reading literary texts with the impartiality of a professor is to confess that literature has ceased to be pleasurable for us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 174

#917

The most repulsive and grotesque spectacle is that of the superiority of a living professor over a dead genius.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 166