Zoonanism

“The bourgeois intellectual neither fights nor works.”
― Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

“Had Heidegger attached his great ego to the cause of international socialism, he would have enjoyed the whitewash granted to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Hobsbawm and the other apologists for the Gulag.1 But the cause of national socialism could enjoy no such convenient excuse, and the sin was compounded, in Heidegger’s case, by the fact that it was precisely the national, rather than the socialist aspect of the creed that had attracted him.”
― Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

“No, says the modern research: these were just Freud’s guesses, and he guessed wrong every time.25”
― Frederick C. Crews, Freud: The Making of an Illusion

“as Henry James had said in a letter to a do-gooding friend, “Only don’t, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another’s, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown