"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited……" — John Ralston Saul
"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."
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57 Quotes by John Ralston Saul
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and,…
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy…
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism…
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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain…
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and…
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every…
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It…
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us…
— Robert D. Hales
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
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If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human…
— Oswald Chambers
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been…
— Euripides
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