"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."

-- Johan Huizinga

#Philosophical Quotes #Culture Quotes #Systematic Quotes

“I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence”
“An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.”
“The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.”
“Late in his life, that's another matter, [Adolf Hitler] was not the same man in 1944 and he was, say, in 1934.”
“I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.”
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

Source : Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.5, Beacon Press
“Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.”
“We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.”

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