It is indeed a story about a world where books are outlawed and burned, but it is also a tale about the value of intellect, the importance of information and the singular, irreplaceable experience of reading books as books — as physical, palpable and precious objects.
There's something in re-learning the meaning of a word that has a value beyond simply satisfying the intellect.
"I shall miss him terribly and so will everybody who values the life of the intellect, of rationality of reason," Dawkins told the BBC.
Similarly, a tendency to value reason and intellect in decision-making is invaluable, but its flip side can be a discomfort with emotion that can interfere not only with intimacy in close relationships but, paradoxically, with good decision-making.
She's got the intellect, she got the values, she's got the political skills, she has a compelling personal story," Huffman said.
The imperative of freedom of speech is immediately accessible to those who value intellect, yet the imperative of the right of Jews to live unfettered by anti-Semitism is clearly less salient.
The June 29 issue, for example, offered 180 great values meant to please not the palate and the intellect so much as "the palate and the purse".
The idea that slang is childish and limiting minimizes the intellect of people of color and their value to society.
They suggest that this model of a meritocracy of the intellect has left its mark in the high value Asians place on education.
Conceptual art is intended as an art of the mind: it generally appeals to matters of the intellect and emphasises art's cognitive rather than aesthetic value.
