absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of … - Gertrude Himmelfarb
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of …
- Gertrude Himmelfarb
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material… - Gertrude Himmelfarb
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material…
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compas… - Gertrude Himmelfarb
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compas…
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success. - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… - Gertrude Himmelfarb
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going…
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. - Gertrude Himmelfarb
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destro… - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destro…
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