Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that these U.S. international moves were bright with danger had been fully considered and accepted. The London press questioned U.S. wisdom in following such a hard line and made a plea for caution. Echoed a shrewd and veteran Washington observer: "A policy of firmness may lead to peace, but it never has in the past...
...wonder then that the Jews of Palestine realize for the first time in 2,000 years the wisdom of their ancient saying: "If I am not for myself, then who is? And if not now-when...
...fact of being a Christian implies a faith that in the end all mankind, including Russia, must be pervaded by religious belief. It was just possible that in adding to their list of religious well-wishers, the hardheaded commissars were inviting the innocence of doves to triumph over the wisdom of serpents...
...know this, Professor Northrop says, is the wisdom of the Orient; and in the great religions of the East, most purely in Buddhism, it has been cultivated through thousands of years as the ultimate reality. In the West, even artists were rarely content to render the sensuous world-the esthetic component-for its own sake until 19th Century Impressionism. Yet if all devotees of the theoretic component-Anglo-Americans in particular-can learn the religious value of direct experience, fanaticism and confusion would cease...
...corrected. The West knows, for example, the science of the soil. The East, with its intuitive, contemplative knowledge of mother earth knows a lot that has no place in the West's scientific structure, and thereby finds the West's systematizing barren of much delight and wisdom. It is Professor Northrop's ambitious aim to try to "correlate" the esthetic and the theoretical into a philosophical ideal that will do for all civilization the world over...