#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

#2,240

In order to be able to speak disdainfully of the great writer who has passed out of fashion, the intellectual refrains from reading him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 364

#2,042

The contemporary thinker leads us through a labyrinth of concepts to a public place.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331

#1,998

The emancipated intellectual shares with his contemporaries the “personal taste” he prides himself on.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,964

The only man who saves himself from intellectual vulgarity is the man who ignores what it is fashionable to know.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,788

The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 295

#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

#1,346

It never occurs to the intellectual who is indignant at the “embourgeoisement of the proletariat” to renounce those things whose enjoyment by the proletariat horrifies him as proof of embourgeoisement.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,048

The problems of an “underdeveloped” country are the favorite pretext for leftist escapism.
Lacking new merchandise to offer to the European market, the leftist intellectual peddles his faded wares in the third world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 186

#925

I am not a non-conformist modern intellectual but an indignant medieval peasant.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 168

#877

The new liturgists have gotten rid of the sacred pulpits so that no villain will assert that the Church aspires to compete with the secular professors’ bully pulpits.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 160

#871

Compared to so many dull intellectuals, to so many artists without talent, to so many stereotyped revolutionaries, a bourgeois without pretensions looks like a Greek statue.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 159

#818

The leftist intellectual does not attack anything with fearlessness and arrogance except ideas he believes to be dead.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 150

#750

The Latin American intellectual has to search for problems for the solutions he imports.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 135

#706

Three persons in our age make it their profession to detest the bourgeoisie:
the intellectual—that typical representative of the bourgeoisie;
the communist—that faithful executor of bourgeois intentions and ideals;
the progressive clergyman—that final triumph of the bourgeois mind over the Christian soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 129

#463

Every marriage between an intellectual and the Communist party ends in adultery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 91

#443

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 88

#401

Two persons inspire particular pity today: the bourgeois politician whom history patiently silences, and the Marxist philosopher whom history patiently refutes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 82

#340

The South American intellectual, in order to feed himself, imports junk from the European market.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 72

#310

Adherence to Communism is the rite which allows the bourgeois intellectual to exorcise his uneasy conscience without abjuring his bourgeois identity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 68