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Quotes by Sociologist
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
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"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
9
"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
9
"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
9
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
9
"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."
9
"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."
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"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
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"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
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"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."
9
"Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy."
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"Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit."
Loss,
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"The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding."
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"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."
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"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
9
"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system."
9
"Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."
9
"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
9
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
9
"The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values."
9
"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."
9
"The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket."
9
"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."
9
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
9
"Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth."
9
"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."
9
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper."
9
"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense."
9
"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
9
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."
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"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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"Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public."
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"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."
Time,
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"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."
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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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"It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system."
8
"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
8
"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
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"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."
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"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
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"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
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"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."
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