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Russell Jacoby Quotes:

Russell Jacoby quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. April 23, 1945

Birthday: April 23

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Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.

Topics: Past, Thinking, Space, Classifying, Banality

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Topics: Common Sense, Half, World, Half Truth, Deceitful

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

Topics: Cynical, Want, Outsiders, Insiders, Indigestion

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