Karl Mannheim Quotes
All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.
Quotes to Explore
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I never use that word, retire.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
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Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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Be natural and use your head.
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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
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Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.
