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My own mind is my own church.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Life
Mind
Pain
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History is the memory of things said and done.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
History
Done
Memories
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Ideas
Serious
World
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Men
Belief
Ironic
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History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
History
Form
Intellectual
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Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Answers
Fundamentals
Meaning Of Life
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All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
History
Determination
Persistence
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To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Independence
Philosophy
Rights
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Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Different
Freedom Of Speech
Lying
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No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Benefits
Class
Meddling
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Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Giving
Hocus Pocus
Mind
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Men
Book
Ideas
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All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Historical
Mind
Writing
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Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Class
Southern
Virginia
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Important
Mind
Moral
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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Time
Law
Lying
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The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
Carl L. Becker / Historian
Education
Government
Hurt
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