Life & Aging Sayings
124 sayings found from the Modern era from 124 authors
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The colonialist is not content with taking the native in his grip and emptying his brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, he turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.
Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie.
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have to be filed in the brain as in the columns of a dic…