Paul Goodman Short Quotes

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Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

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When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

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It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

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Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

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The philosophical aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

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The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

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We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

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We do not need to be able to say what human nature is in order to be able to say that some training is against human nature.

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Their religion is unfeasible, for one cannot richly meet the glancing present … without long discipleship and secure sustenance.

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It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

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We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

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It is desperately hard these days for an average child to grow up to be a man, for our present organized system does not want men. They are not safe.

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It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

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It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

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There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

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The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

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Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

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The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

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There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

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When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.

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