Cultural Intellect Mugs

Armadillo

Stephen Spender.

Paul Ree

Miss America IQ Pageant

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

The man who invented the wheel/The man who patented the wheel.

Downloads.

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

'Between you and me Wizard, is it true that you intellectuals have pointed heads?'

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

Lost and Profound.

Jacques Lacan

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

'Actually, we don't like the term 'cannibal', we prefer to be called 'homovores'.'

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

"You're terrific, Katia. You think like 'The New York Review of Books' and look like 'Vogue.'"

Toni Morrison

George Santayana

'My thanks go first to the Nobel Committee for this great honor, and to my son who encouraged me to keep my mind agile with word games, and puzzles.'

Philosophers On Strike

'If you're going to stare at that thing all day, at least watch something educational,,, like Japan,'

Soren Kierkegaard

'This is getting to be too much for me. I'm thinking of becoming a middlebrow.'

Thomas Carlyle

Margaret Cavendish

Man at door of Think Tank sees signs Closed Now a Thought Tank.

"The only way to create a sensation as an essayist these days is to write something mean bout cats."

"It Works For Us."

Guillaume Apollinaire

Raymond Queneau