“What Does Culture Want?” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.”
Umberto Eco
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“Class is material consumed” – John Trudell
“Class is material consumed.”
John Trudell
Quote by Gore Vidal: It is not enough to succeed
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”
Gore Vidal
Sarcastic Quote by Gore Vidal about Children and Grandchildren
“Never have children, only grandchildren.”
Gore Vidal
“What’s the point of being better?” – Noam Chomsky
“What’s the point of being better than someone else?”
Noam Chomsky
Ayn Rand Quote About Learning and Fear
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand
“Property is the Right of Increase” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Ayn Rand Quote About Love and Values
“I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer on Art and History
“For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Leadership and National Ideals
“Leaders are the custodians of a nation’s ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.”
Walter Lippmann