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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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No one can buy his share of "clean air" in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.
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Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
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The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of all problems for the sociologist.
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Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.
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Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.
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The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.
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When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.
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What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e. g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
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Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism is—vice versa.
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Wisdom is the tears of experience, the bridge of experience and imagination over time.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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Television, as the most "public" of media, has its limits.
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Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.
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Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul."
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.
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Born:
May 10, 1919
Died:
January 25, 2011
(aged 91)
Bio:
Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.
Known for:
The End of Ideology (1960)
The coming of post-industrial society (1973)
The cultural contradictions of capitalism (1976)
The winding passage (1980)
Marxian socialism in the United States (1952)
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