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Irwin Edman Quotes

Life is always at some turning point.

Life is always at some turning point.

Change, Moving, Life Is

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

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

Business, Communication, Men

"The world, the arts and the artist".

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

Work, Civilization, Quality

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

Discovery, Needs, Purpose

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

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Honesty, Doe, Demand

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.

Children, Smart, Parent

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

Country, Lying, Quality

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

Years, Differences, Income

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.

Hero, Patterns, Worship

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

Heaven, World, May

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

Evil, Spirit, Modern

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

Inspirational, Myth

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

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