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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
— Alain Badiou
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
— William S. Burroughs
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can…
— Albert Camus
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
— Octavio Paz
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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and…
— Billy Corgan
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior…
— Armond White
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established…
— Alain Badiou
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Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge…
— Gorgias
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Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.
— Unknown Author
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Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
— Dean Ornish
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The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,
— Leo Strauss
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