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May Quotes by Neil Postman
- The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is…
- If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology…
- If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the…
- People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -…
- The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different…
- The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind…
More May Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare