Skip to main content
1 month 3 weeks ago

At the time of its initial publication, Public Administration helped to define this field of study and practice by introducing two major new emphases: an orientation toward human behavior and human relations in organizations, and an emphasis on the interaction between administration, politics, and policy. Without neglecting more traditional concerns with organization structure, Simon, Thompson, and Smithburg viewed administration in its behavioral and political contexts. The viewpoints they express still are at the center of public administration's concerns.

0
0
Source
source
Book abstract, 1991
3 months 1 week ago

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

0
0
Source
source
p. 61
3 months 2 weeks ago

Bad times have a scientific value. [...] We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

0
0
Source
source
Considerations by the Way
2 months 1 week ago

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

0
0
6 days ago

The great man is the one who does not lose his child's heart.

0
0
Source
source
Book 4, pt. 2, v. 12
3 months 2 weeks ago

It is impossible to imagine a more dramatic and horrifying combination of scientific triumph with political and moral failure than has been shown to the world in the destruction of Hiroshima. From the scientific point of view, the atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination of genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

0
0
1 week 2 days ago

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

0
0
Source
source
Letter to his elder sister Henriette (1841).

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

0
0
Source
source
Attributed in Forbes Vol 38 Iss. 2 (1936) p. 18, and in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 275
3 months 2 weeks ago

The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be heroic.

0
0
Source
source
Quotation and Originality
4 months 1 week ago

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. Return to Tipasa (1954) Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

0
0
4 days ago

The news of this barbaric orgy of military sadism was kept from the world for half a year. A belated commission of inquiry was appointed by the Government. A committee appointed by the Indian National Congress made a more through investigation and reported 1,200 killed, and 3,600 wounded. Gen. Dyer was censured by the House of Commons, exonerated by the House of Lords, and was retired on a pension. Thinking this was insufficient the militarists of the Empire raised a fund of $150,000 for him and presented him with a jeweled sword of honor. (source: The Case for India - By Will Durant Simon and Schuster, New York. 1930 p. This book was banned by the British Government. Durant held the view that no part of the world suffered so much poverty andoppression as India did and that this was largely due to British imperialism).

0
0
2 months 2 weeks ago

In all persuasions the bigots are persecutors; the men of a cool and reasonable piety are favourers of toleration; because the former sort of men not taking the pains to be acquainted with the grounds of their adversaries tenets, conceive them to be so absurd and monstrous, that no man of sense can give into them in good earnest. For which reason they are convinced that some oblique bad motive induces them to pretend to the belief of such doctrines, and to the maintaining of them with obstinacy. This is a very general principle in all religious differences, and it is the corner stone of all persecution.

0
0
Source
source
Volume II, p. 148
1 month 2 weeks ago

Precisely by inculcating a critical attitude, the "canon" served to demythologize the conventional pieties of the American bourgeoisie and provided the student with a perspective from which to critically analyze American culture and institutions. Ironically, the same tradition is now regarded as oppressive. The texts once served an unmasking function; now we are told that it is the texts which must be unmasked.

0
0
Source
source
"The Storm Over the University", The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990
2 months 1 week ago

Lord, give me the capacity of never praying, spare me the insanity of all worship, let this temptation of love pass from me which would deliver me forever unto You. Let the void spread between my heart and heaven! I have no desire to people my deserts by Your presence, to tyrannize my nights by Your light, to dissolve my Siberias beneath Your sun.

0
0
1 week 2 days ago

Now the argument that I make in my book is that part of the current disaffection with liberalism is not from any of its basic principles, but... is the result of certain deformations of liberal principles that were carried to extremes that led... to bad outcomes... There's a move in this direction on the right and... on the left.

0
0
Source
source
12:25 Ref: Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
2 months 5 days ago

Even after his conversion, the true 'apostate' is not primarily committed to the positive contents of his new belief and to the realization of its aims. He is motivated by the struggle against the old belief and lives on for its negation. The apostate does not affirm his new convictions for their own sake; he is engaged in a continuous chain of acts of revenge against his own spiritual past. In reality he remains a captive of this past, and the new faith is merely a handy frame of reference for negating and rejecting the old. As a religious type, the apostate is therefore at the opposite pole from the 'resurrected,' whose life is transformed by a new faith which is full of intrinsic meaning and value.

0
0
Source
source
L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 66-67
3 months 3 weeks ago

The will is not free to strive toward whatever is declared good.

0
0
Source
source
Thesis 10
1 month 1 week ago

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

0
0
Source
source
Access, Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, 1984, p. xxiii
2 months 2 weeks ago

For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.

0
0
3 months 2 weeks ago

If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?

0
0
Source
source
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. IX, sec. 123
3 months 2 weeks ago

The South has conquered nothing - but a graveyard.

0
0
3 months 2 weeks ago

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. No doubt there are usually more and sharper quarrels between parents and children, than between masters and slaves ; yet it advances not the art of household management to change a father's right into a right of property, and count children but as slaves. Slavery, then, and not peace, is furthered by handing the whole authority to one man.

0
0
Source
source
Ch. 6, On Monarchy
2 months ago

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

0
0
Source
source
p. 274
1 month 1 week ago

When you move into a new area, a new territory and learn a new language, the language is not a new subject, it is an environment, it is total.

0
0
Source
source
(p. 105)
3 months 2 days ago

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

0
0
Source
source
Sertorius 16 (Tr. Dryden and Clough)
3 months 3 weeks ago

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

0
0
1 month 1 week ago

All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.

0
0
3 months 1 week ago

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

0
0
Source
source
Macquarrie & Robinson translation
1 month 2 weeks ago

The recognition that love represents the highest morality was nowhere denied or contradicted, but this truth was so interwoven everywhere with all kinds of falsehoods which distorted it, that finally nothing of it remained but words. It was taught that this highest morality was only applicable to private life - for home use, as it were - but that in public life all forms of violence - such as imprisonment, executions, and wars - might be used for the protection of the majority against a minority of evildoers, though such means were diametrically opposed to any vestige of love.

0
0
Source
source
III
2 months 1 week ago

Till mankind be satisfied with the naked statement of what they really perceive, till they confess virtue to be then most illustrious, when she more disdains the aid of ornament, they will never arrive at that manly justice of sentiment at which they seem destined one day to arrive. By his scheme of naked virtue will be every day a gainer; every succeeding observer willl more fully do her justice, while vice, deprived of that varnish with which she delighted to glow her actions of that gaudy exhibition which may be made alike by every pretender will speedily sink into unheeded contempt.

0
0
Source
source
Book V, Chapter 12, "Of Titles"
2 months 2 weeks ago

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

0
0
Source
source
Volume iii, p. 231
4 months 2 weeks ago
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things, metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
0
0
3 months 4 weeks ago

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

0
0
Source
source
Book II, ch. 17, 1.
2 months 1 week ago

Peace be with you. Receive my peace unto yourselves. Beware that no one lead you astray saying Lo here or lo there! For the Son of Man is within you. Follow after Him! Those who seek Him will find Him. Go then and preach the gospel of the Kingdom. Do not lay down any rules beyond what I appointed you, and do not give a law like the lawgiver lest you be constrained by it.

0
0
Source
source
Chapter 4. tion.
1 month 3 weeks ago

(Gardner) writes about various kinds of cranks with the conscious superiority of the scientist, and in most cases one can share his sense of the victory of reason. But after half a dozen chapters this non-stop superiority begins to irritate; you begin to wonder about the standards that make him so certain he is always right. He asserts that the scientist, unlike the crank, does his best to remain open-minded. So how can he be so sure that no sane person has ever seen a flying saucer, or used a dowsing rod to locate water? And that all the people he disagrees with are unbalanced fanatics? A colleague of the positivist philosopher A. J. Ayer once remarked wryly "I wish I was as certain of anything as he seems to be about everything." Martin Gardner produces the same feeling.

0
0
Source
source
pp. 2-3
1 month 3 weeks ago

An elaborated culture has a density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.

0
0
Source
source
Quoted in Richard Middleton, Studying Popular Music (Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-335-15275-9), p. 248
2 months 1 week ago

I dream of wanting - and all I want seems to me worthless.

0
0
3 months 1 week ago

...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world - and defines himself afterwards.

0
0
2 months 1 week ago

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

0
0
Source
source
As quoted in Demian (1972) by Hermann Hesse, trans. W.J. Strachan
2 months ago

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

0
0
Source
source
p. 6

Joe Hume talked to me very earnestly about the necessity of an union of Liberals. He said much about Ballot and the Franchise. I told him that I could easily come to some compromise with him and his friends on these matters, but that there were other questions about which I feared that there was an irreconcileable difference, particularly the vital question of national defence. He seemed quite confounded, and had absolutely nothing to say. I am fully determined to make them eat their words on that point, or to have no political connection with them.

0
0
Source
source
Journal entry (November 1852), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume II (1876), p. 368
3 months 2 weeks ago

Every man is a new method.

0
0
Source
source
"The Natural History of Intellect", p. 28
3 months 2 weeks ago

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

0
0
Source
source
Sec. 115
2 months 1 week ago

The surest means of not losing your mind on the spot: remembering that everything is unreal, and will remain so...

0
0

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

0
0
Source
source
K 41
4 months 1 week ago

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

0
0
4 days ago

See him, the newborn, dirty but marvelous, ridiculous in actuality, infinite in possibility, capable of that ultimate miracle, growth.

0
0
Source
source
Ch. 1 : Our life begins
1 month 1 week ago

It may be that brain hardware has co-evolved with the internal virtual worlds that it creates. This can be called hardware-software co-evolution.

0
0

CivilSimian.com created by AxiomaticPanic, CivilSimian, Kalokagathia