Edward Westermarck quotes

Edward Westermarck quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.”
-- Edward Westermarck

Source : Edward Westermarck (1908). “The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas”

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“It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.”
“There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.”
“The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.”
“Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
“Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.”
“Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.”
“The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.”
“Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?”

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