George Scialabba Quotes

• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

  George Scialabba

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

  George Scialabba

  Wings, Nails, Hammers

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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• The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

  George Scialabba

  Leader, Quality, Citizens

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• Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.

  George Scialabba

  Political, Intellectual, Different

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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• What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.

  George Scialabba

  Moving, Character, Ideas

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• The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

  George Scialabba

  Powerful, Should, Institutions

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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