The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“Economics is the art of allocating scarce goods among competing demands. The conceit of Marxism was the thought that in Communism, economics would be… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
