Gerald Brenan on Intellectuals

“Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.”

Gerald Brenan

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.

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