Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Irwin Edman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American philosopher Irwin Edman.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Irwin Edman

Irwin Edman was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Life is always at some turning point.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. — © Irwin Edman
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.
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.
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.
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.
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