Academia Quotes

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

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

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

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No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.