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Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic.
The Captive Mind (1953)
They are totally unaware of the fact that nothing is their own, that everything is part of their historical formation — their occupations, their clothes, their gestures and expressions, their beliefs and ideas.
The Captive Mind (1953)
A purely physiological study of one particular passer-by in preference to another is meaningless.
The Captive Mind (1953)
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained.
The Captive Mind (1953)
The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts.
The Captive Mind (1953)
A real "wasteland" is much more terrible than any imaginary one.
The Captive Mind (1953)
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
The Captive Mind (1953)
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
The Captive Mind (1953)
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?
The Captive Mind (1953)
The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.
The Captive Mind (1953)