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Daniel Bell
American
Sociologist
About the author
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist
But in action, one defies one's character.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist
#Action
#Character
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist
#World
#Self
#Knowledge
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist
#Home
#Europe
#America
#Land
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist
#Art
#Technology
#Imagination
#Exercise
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist
#People
#Experience
#Religion
#Religious
#Theology
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Daniel Bell,
American
Sociologist