Academia Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Academia.
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“Universities”
“Intellectuals”
“Liberal education”
“Academic careerism”
“Homo academicus is a herd animal.”
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”
“To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.”
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“The academies and universities satisfied Socrates’ demand to be fed in the prytaneum.”
“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.”
“Academe has become a multinational corporation, and scholars have become businessmen, mobile merchants on the make.”
“Nietzsche’s ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.”
“ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.”
“One should observe our scholars closely: they have reached the point where they think only “reactively,” i.e. they must read before they can think.”
“Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.”