Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Bell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American sociologist Daniel Bell.

Last updated on November 5, 2024.

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". His three best known works are The End of Ideology, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.

American - Sociologist | May 10, 1919 - January 25, 2011

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But in action, one defies one's character.

Daniel Bell

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

Daniel Bell

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.

Daniel Bell

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.

Daniel Bell

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.

Daniel Bell