“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.” WorldMeanLongStillsStatesFactsCertainValuesForceGrowthNumbersTakenModernDevelopmentCivilizationElementsStandingImportanceProductionsDoctrineGrantedEtcOur WorldOwnershipModern WorldFormationTaken For GrantedAutonomousStanding StillPrimacyContinual Growth Author:Jacques Ellul
“Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.” IfsFeltGrowthEducationStageElementsUnityOrganismsDeficiencyDefective Book:Essays on the Higher Education Source: Essays on the Higher Education
“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.” MindHumansArtWholeShowsTogetherFormLawValuesProcessGrowthMoralTheoryPersonalityActivityElementsIntuitionResistanceEngagedOrganismsSanctityHuman ActivityInsistenceLiving OrganismsHuman PersonalityAdditives Book:Selected Writings Source: Selected Writings
“I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.” ThinkingKnowsGivingDreamGrowsGrowthKnow HowElementsMajorsFantasticCombinationFilmmaker Author:Jihan El-Tahri
“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.” LongTwoCharacterGrowthSituationElementsObedienceRangeMaturity Book:Effective Biblical Counseling Source: Effective Biblical Counseling