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It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
— Richard Hofstadter
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him ...
— Richard Hofstadter
Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron
— John Paul Warren
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
— Richard Hofstadter
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
— Richard Hofstadter
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
— Richard Hofstadter
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
— Richard Hofstadter
It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us.
— Jake Delhomme
Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.
— Richard Hofstadter
It is impossible to erase my choices.
— Veronica Roth
A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.
— Richard Hofstadter
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
— Richard Hofstadter
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury ...
— Richard Hofstadter
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
— Richard Hofstadter
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
— Richard Hofstadter
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
— Richard Hofstadter