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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then,…
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;…
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But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and…
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Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…
— Joseph Beuys
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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of…
— Josh Billings
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Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
— Mark Twain
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
— Philip James Bailey
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Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
— Andrei Platonov
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Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists…
— Allan Bloom
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The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not…
— Northrop Frye
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The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
— Criss Jami
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