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Daniel Bell [1919-0] American
Rank: 106
Sociologist


Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era."

Anger, Imagination, Religion, Technology

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But in action, one defies one's character.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear. Anger
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Imagination, Technology
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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. Religion
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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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.
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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.
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