If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.