Daniel Bell

Quotes

• “I was born in galut [exile] and I accept—now gladly, though once in pain—the double burden and the double pleasure of my self-consciousness, the outward life of an American and the inward secret of the Jew. I walk with this sign as a frontlet between my eyes, and it is as visible to some secret others as their sign is to me.”
• “That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.”
• “Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul."”
• “Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.”
• “Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.”
• “It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.”

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