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Cornel West : To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Ben Jonson : " One, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for never no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Epictetus : " First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Thomas Carlyle : " If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Edwin Abbot : " "What," said I, "does the puny creature mean by 'it'?" "He means himself," said the Sphere: "have you not noticed before now, that babies and babyish people who cannot distinguish themselves from the world, speak of themselves in the Third Person? But hush!" "It fills all Space," continued the little soliloquizing Creature, "and what It fills, It is. What It thinks, that It utters; and what It utters, that It hears; and It itself is Thinker, Utterer, Hearer, Thought, Word, Audition; it is the One, and yet the All in All. Ah, the happiness ah, the happiness of Being!" "Can you not startle the little thing out of its complacency?" said I. "Tell it what it really is, as you told me; reveal to it the narrow limitations of Pointland, and lead it up to something higher." "That is no easy task," said my Master; "try you." " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Elizabeth Bowen : " Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Jean Cocteau : " I am a lie who always speaks the truth. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Aristotle : " Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Jean Cocteau : " The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Aesop : " A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Phaedrus : " Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Cornel West: " I focus on popular culture because I focus on those areas where black humanity is most powerfully expressed, where black people have been able to articulate their sense of the world in a profound manner. And I see this primarily in popular culture. Why not in highbrow culture? Because the access has been so difficult. Why not in more academic forms? Because academic exclusion has been the rule for so long for large numbers of black people that black culture, for me, becomes a search for where black people have left their imprint and fundamentally made a difference in terms of how certain art forms are understood. This is currently in popular culture. And it has been primarily in music, religion, visual arts and fashion." # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Music # Religion

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Cornel West: " In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depolitcized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people." # Mothers # Rebellion # Poverty and The Poor

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Cornel West: " To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak." # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Suffering

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Cornel West: " I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualititative difference." # Success # Age and Aging # Books - Reading

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Cornel West: " The Enlightenment worldview held by Du Bois is ultimately inadequate, and, in many ways, antiquated, for our time. The tragic plight and absurd predicament of Africans here and abroad requires a more profound interpretation of the human condition — one that goes beyond the false dichotomies of expert knowledge vs. mass ignorance, individual autonomy vs. dogmatic authority, and self-mastery vs. intolerant tradition." # Kindness # Experts # Writers and Writing

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Cornel West: " You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people." # Love # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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