Ruth Nanda Anshen Professions : Philosopher Born : June 14, 1900 Died : December 2, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Ruth Nanda Anshen Knowledge is a process, not a product. Ruth Nanda Anshen products process knowledge 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 recovery data spiritual 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 unique men lying Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society. Ruth Nanda Anshen units cells body For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence. Ruth Nanda Anshen inspirational men lying Similar Authors F. H. Bradley philosopher Irving Copi philosopher Ivan Ilyin philosopher Ivan Illich philosopher Bion of Borysthenes philosopher Bonaventure philosopher All Authors
