Quotes by Daniel Bell

About Daniel Bell:

Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus 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.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Daniel Bell

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

Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature--the qualities of space and time--in new perceptual and material for...

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

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

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

But in action, one defies one's character.

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

Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Bell
  • DescriptionAmerican sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University
  • BornMay 10, 1919
  • DiedJanuary 25, 2011
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSociologist; Writer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship