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One Quotes by Peter L. Berger
- Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with…
- He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with…
- To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that…
- One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism
- Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around,…
- So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have…
- On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle