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Life Quotes by Ivan Illich
- Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret;…
- School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow…
- I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore…
- I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death
- The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
- Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the…
- The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an…
- I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle…
- A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its…
- School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are…
- School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle