Daniel Bell Quotes & Sayings

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic. — Daniel Bell

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. — Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. — Daniel Bell

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. — Daniel Bell

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. — Daniel Bell

But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life. — Daniel Bell

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. — Daniel Bell

But in action, one defies one's character. — Daniel Bell

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear. — Daniel Bell

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae. — Daniel Bell

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. — Daniel Bell