Carl L. Becker Quotes

• The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

  Carl L. Becker

  Mind, Important, Moral

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• All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

  Carl L. Becker

  Writing, Historical, Mind

  "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

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• Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

  Carl L. Becker

  Libro, Hombres, Ideas

  Carl L. Becker (2013). “Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas”, p.3, Vintage

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• History is the memory of things said and done.

  Carl L. Becker

  Memories, History, Done

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

  Carl L. Becker

  Men, Ironic, Belief

  Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)

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• The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

  Carl L. Becker

  Education, Hurt, Government

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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• No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

  Carl L. Becker

  Class, Benefits, Meddling

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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• All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

  Carl L. Becker

  Determination, Persistence, History

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• No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

  Carl L. Becker

  Time, Lying, Law

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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• Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

  Carl L. Becker

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Different

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• History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

  Carl L. Becker

  History, Intellectual, Form

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• Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

  Carl L. Becker

  Ideas, World, Serious

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• Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

  Carl L. Becker

  Meaning Of Life, Fundamentals, Answers

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• My own mind is my own church.

  Carl L. Becker

  Life, Pain, Mind

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• La lógica es algo que la mente ha creado para ocultar su timidez, un abracadabra diseñado para dar validez formal a conclusiones que estamos dispuestos a aceptar si todos los demás de nuestro grupo también lo hacen.

  Carl L. Becker

  Giving, Mind, Hocus Pocus

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• Preguntar si la filosofía de los derechos naturales de la Declaración de Independencia es verdadera o falsa, es esencialmente una pregunta sin sentido.

  Carl L. Becker

  Philosophy, Rights, Independence

  Carl L. Becker (2013). “Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas”, p.188, Vintage

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• Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.

  Carl L. Becker

  Virginia, Class, Southern

  "Search Results The United States: An Experiment in Democracy". Book by Carl L. Becker, 1920.

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