What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.
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...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
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No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
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You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
