Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Weste… - Ann Bridge
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Weste…
- Ann Bridge
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. - Ann Bridge
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, howe… - Ann Bridge
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, howe…
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridicul… - Ann Bridge
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridicul…
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who c… - Ann Bridge
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who c…
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house. - Ann Bridge
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life. - Ann Bridge
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept … - Ann Bridge
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept …
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education … - Ann Bridge
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education …
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