It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the… - Archibald Macleish
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the…
- Archibald Macleish
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. - Archibald Macleish
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, … - Archibald Macleish
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, …
Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question. - Archibald Macleish
Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. - Archibald Macleish
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritari… - Archibald Macleish
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritari…
The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse. - Archibald Macleish
The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. - Archibald Macleish
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at … - Archibald Macleish
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at …
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