To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.