Thomas Sowell writes, “Intellectuals, according to Mr. Kristof, are people who are ‘interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity,’ people who “read the classics.’
It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry.”
Thomas Sowell writes, “Intellectuals, according to Mr. Kristof, are people who are ‘interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity,’ people who “read the classics.’
It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry.”
Also from that article: “President Harry Truman, whom no one thought of as an intellectual, was a voracious reader of heavyweight stuff like Thucydides and read Cicero in the original Latin. When Chief Justice Carl Vinson quoted in Latin, Truman was able to correct him.
Yet intellectuals tended to think of the unpretentious and plain-spoken Truman as little more than a country bumpkin.”
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Reminds me of 1 Cor. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” (ESV)
Thank God we live not in “the age of reason”, but “the age of empiricism”.