Ruth Nanda Anshen Quotes

• Knowledge is a process, not a product.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Knowledge, Process, Products

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• Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Lying, Unique, Men

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Spiritual, Recovery, Data

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• Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Cells, Body, Units

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1959). “The family: its function and destiny”

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• For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Inspiración, Mentira, Hombres

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