Irwin Edman Quotes

• Life is always at some turning point.

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  Change, Moving, Life Is

  Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”

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• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

  Irwin Edman

  Business, Communication, Men

  "The world, the arts and the artist".

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• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  Irwin Edman

  Work, Civilization, Quality

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• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
  being from having one.

  Irwin Edman

  Discovery, Needs, Purpose

  Irwin Edman (1931). “The Contemporary and His Soul”

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• Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

  Irwin Edman

  Honesty, Doe, Demand

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• Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

  Irwin Edman

  Children, Smart, Parent

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• The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

  Irwin Edman

  Country, Lying, Quality

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• By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
  abolished major differences in wealth.

  Irwin Edman

  Years, Differences, Income

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• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

  Irwin Edman

  Hero, Patterns, Worship

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• God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

  Irwin Edman

  Heaven, World, May

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• To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

  Irwin Edman

  Evil, Spirit, Modern

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• The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

  Irwin Edman

  Inspirational, Myth

  Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”

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