"Serious thinkers are few, and the world is……" — Carl L. Becker
"Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas."
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Carl L. Becker
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11 Quotes by Carl L. Becker
Carl L. Becker has 11 quotes on this site.
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My own mind is my own church.
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To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless…
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History is the memory of things said and done.
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to…
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All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to…
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Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which…
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying…
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History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
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More Crude Quotes
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one of 189 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils…
— Lionel Blue
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
— Georg Buchner
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Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in…
— James Buchan
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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil…
— James Buchan
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As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
— George Bernard Shaw
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way…
— George Wald
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the…
— C.S. Lewis
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ...…
— Jacob Bronowski
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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