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“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.”

Dream America Certain Culture Interest Democracy Personality Aspiration Clash Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.”

Source: The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”

Should Culture Social Ability Class Equal Achievement Expectations Aspiration Affected Motivated Prospects Social Class

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.”

Men Humans Art Culture Justice Views Jew Noble Aspiration Dominant Human Society Peace And Justice Aloof Truth And Justice

Book:Judaism eternal: selected essays from the writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch

Source: Judaism eternal: selected essays from the writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz