Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 4, 1926 Death: December 2, 2002
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen..
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place..
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perha….
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us..
I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death.
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark..
The public school has become the established church of secular society..
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance..
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently….
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecologic….
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless b….
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many struc….
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose som….
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?.
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education..
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdevelo….
If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story..
I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task ….
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable..
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle wh….
Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the u….