Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the case of Lewis Strauss: Voltaire, a great mind with insight into human nature, spoke with profound prophecy in his Catiline...
Wake Up. Snow suspects that the Russians have judged the situation more sensibly. "They have a deeper insight into the scientific revolution than we have, or than the Americans have; the gap between the cultures doesn't seem to be anything like so wide as with us. One finds that their novelists can assume in their audience-as we cannot-at least a rudimentary acquaintance with what industry is all about . . . An engineer in a Soviet novel is as acceptable, so it seems, as a psychiatrist in an American...
...Demos admittedly does not try to convert in his philosophy class. His self-described role is that of the actor, speaking for the various philosophers. For the instructor, the role of the believer yields to that of the impartial spokesman expounding the bits of wisdom and insight which each philosopher offers. The values of teaching many philosophical claims to truth thus take precedence over the teaching of the professor's own convictions...
...Most of you will live in huge cities or their suburbs. The pioneering job, therefore, is to make human life livable and rewarding under urban conditions ... we need the insight of the arts, philosophy and religion if we are not to become slaves instead of masters of our own powers," Jones concluded...
...Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress: one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes through progress towards understanding one's emotional condition." Another similarly explains, "psychological insight: God is a product of man; the most valuable part of religion is ethics--do good to fellows...