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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Daniel Bell
Break Up, Breakup, Religious
Daniel Bell (2008). “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Basic Books

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

Daniel Bell
Art, Ends, Art Is
Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Daniel Bell
Curiosity, Philosopher, Moments
Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Daniel Bell
Self, Intellectual, World
Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Daniel Bell
Machines, Turns, Prepared
Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.405, Harvard University Press

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Daniel Bell
Weary, Angry

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Daniel Bell
Art, Exercise, Imagination
Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Daniel Bell
Art, Space, Quality
Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Daniel Bell
Art, Term, Aesthetic
Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

Wise men still seek Him today.

Daniel Bell
Wise, Wisdom, Men

But in action, one defies one's character.

Daniel Bell
Character, Action
Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.303, Harvard University Press

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Daniel Bell
Philosophical, Home, Europe
Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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