Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to acce… - Carl L. Becker
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to acce…
- Carl L. Becker
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed. - Carl L. Becker
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform wha… - Carl L. Becker
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform wha…
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not d… - Carl L. Becker
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not d…
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Sou… - Carl L. Becker
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Sou…
Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. - Carl L. Becker
Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas… - Carl L. Becker
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas…
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. - Carl L. Becker
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. - Carl L. Becker
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
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