“I continue to find appealing the sentiment of a left-wing song that I learned in my childhood, which begins as follows: "If we should consider each other, a neighbor, a friend, or a brother, it could be a wonderful, wonderful world, it could be a wonderful world."”
III. Is the Ideal Desirable?
Why Not Socialism? (2009)
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But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
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Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Radio Days (1987).
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
if he does depart from his state of wonder, he has ceased to philosophize.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 105–106
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 19.
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Henry Kaufman (1927) American economist
On Money and Markets (2000)
“When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.”
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Mitch All Together (2003)
