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The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.
Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.