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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.”
― Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
― Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.”
― Humboldt: 'On Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species
― Humboldt: 'On Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
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“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles.
Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.”
― Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.”
― Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
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