Culture (12)

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Rousseau on Consumption

Man who had previously been free and independent, is now so to speak subjugated by a multitude of new needs. Consuming ambition, the ardent desire to raise one's relative fortune less out of genuine need than in order to place oneself above others, instills in…

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Martin Buber on Education

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant…

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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo Events in America

“The Image: A Guide to Pseudo Events in America” By Daniel Boorstin  "[We have] used our wealth, our literacy, our technology, and our progress, to create the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life... We want to believe these illusions…

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The Shoes of the Fisherman

Untitled Blog Post Name It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk…

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If--

If--IfUntitled Blog Post Name If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,   But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and…

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