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“In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.”

Said America Political Enjoy Pleasure Offers Intellectual Europe Capacity Sensual Stability Infantile Continental Sensual Pleasure

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.”

Men Mean Country America Spiritual Opportunity Greatness Development Intellectual Species

Author:Edwin Land

“American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.”

May Seems America Life Is Powerful Elements Intellectual Tough Optimism Aliens Native Good Will Complacency American Life Fuse Thoughtlessness

Book:Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America

Source: Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America

“Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.”

America Answers Intellectual Intellectual Life

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.”

World Country Philosophy Today America Form Universe Results Intellectual Profit Yield Construction Elsewhere Technological Strict Assured Procedures Logistics Anglo Saxon

Author:Martin Heidegger

“I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"”

Needs Wells Looks Littles Long Stories America Novel Growing Written Havens Intellectual Planning Parks Theme Justification Dystopian Limbs Improvising Forethought Theme Parks

Author:George Saunders