Daniel Bell Quotes

#1. The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

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#2. Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

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#3. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

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#4. Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

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#5. I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

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#6. One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

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#7. The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

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#8. When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

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#9. Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

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#10. But in action, one defies one's character.

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#11. But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.

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#12. Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

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