“Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.”
“Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.”
“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”
“Where the craving for admiration and approval predominates, intellectual rigor cannot thrive, if it survives at all.”
“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.”
“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.”