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«The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Books,
Failure
| Keywords:
enfeebled, enfeebles, fatal, here and now, strengthens, tendency, The Vision
«The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.»
«The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.»
Author: Lord Jeffrey
| Keywords:
complaining, inferior, intellects, sign, souls, surest, symptom, taken, tendency, whines, whining
«To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crushes, General The, intensity, in general, relative, revolt, revolted, revolts, tendency, vitality, worm
«The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| Keywords:
ally, fanaticism, partisan, partisans, religious fanaticism, tendency
«The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.»
Author: Tom Naylor
| Keywords:
abstract, fantasy, manipulation, manipulations, real life, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, retreat, technical, tendency
«The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
aggression, aggressions, constitutes, culture, disposition, independent, innate, obstacle, tendency
«The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
constitute, constituting, satisfactory, steadily, support, tendency, The Natural
«The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| Keywords:
escape, escape from, imperfection, in order, reunite, reunited, tendency
«The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
modern, sacrificed, tendency, This Modern World, uniform, uniforms, universal
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