Daniel Bell quotes
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“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.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (2008). “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Basic Books
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“Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
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“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.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
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“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.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
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“One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.405, Harvard University Press
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“I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.”
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“... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
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“Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
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“But in action, one defies one's character.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.303, Harvard University Press
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“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.309, Harvard University Press
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“Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.”
-- Daniel BellSource : Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
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