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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Being
"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
Life
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
Imagination
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
Man
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work
"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
Education
"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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Personal Development
"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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Personal Development
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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Personal Development
"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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Personal Development
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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Personal Development
"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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Personal Development
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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Personal Development
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