Daniel Bell Quotes & Sayings

7 most famous Daniel Bell quotes and sayings (sociologist).

“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.”

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

“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”

“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.”

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

“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.”