Quotes from Ruth Nanda Anshen

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

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.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Confronta-nos, realmente, a inflexível necessidade de descobrir um princípio de diferenciação, e contudo de relação, bastante lúcido para justificar e purificar o conhecimento científico, filosófico e qualquer outro, ao mesmo tempo que aceitando sua mútua interdependência.

B]eyond the divisiveness among men there exists a primordial unitive power since we are all bound together by a common humanity more fundamental than any unity of dogma.

Knowledge [...] no longer consists in a manipulation of man and nature as opposite forces, nor in the reduction of data to mere statistical order, but is a means of liberating mankind from the destructive power of fear, pointing the way toward the goal of the rehabilitation of the human will and the rebirth of faith and confidence in the human person.

todas as grandes mudanças são precedidas de vigorosa reavaliação e reorganização intelectuais.