Pensive, a. to think or reflect, to weigh or consider. Discernment, n. the power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; insight; acumen; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. (Webster's Dictionary)
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Stanley Kubrick on Society and Man
"I think that when Rousseau transferred the concept of original sin from man to society, he was responsible for a lot of misguided social thinking which followed. I don't think that man is what he is because of an imperfectly structured society, but rather that society is imperfectly structured because of the nature of man. No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good." —Stanley Kubrick in an interview with Michel Ciment
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