"In a world of such extended knowledge, ignorance is the fruit of sloth, dissipation, or misguided delusion."
Charles Bridges
Monday, May 24, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
silence
Speaking of the press in 1978 before an audience of Harvard graduates, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said,
"...we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: 'everyone is entitled to know everything.' But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1978
"A World Split Apart"
"...we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: 'everyone is entitled to know everything.' But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1978
"A World Split Apart"
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