Richard Hofstadter Famous Quotes
"A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind."
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."
"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."
Richard Hofstadter Quotations
"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right."
Albert Guinon
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Francis Bacon
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
William Shakespeare
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A J Ayer
"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."
Marquis de Sade
"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger."
Edward Morgan Forster
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell