- Nov 07, 2020
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- Judgment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
- Interpretation
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
- Feature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
- Causal
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- Nov 07, 2020
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
- Dam
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture means control over nature.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020