In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute ...

In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of the population who are unable to look life in the face.

quote by Karl Mannheim
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
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