#academia

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#could #going #i #into #just

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #art #art-history #artists #arts

The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#education #education

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#corporatism #freedom-of-thought #death

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #movies #passion #scholars #scholarship