One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his life. Whereas with a cultured man there is no gap or lacuna between his opinions and his life. Both are dominated by the same organic, inevitable fatality. They are what he is.


p. 19 - The Meaning of Culture (1929)

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One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his...

One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his...

One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his...

One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his...