Quotes About Berger

sociology of knowledge is concerned with the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises.

Religion legitimates so effectively because it relates the precarious reality constructions of empirical societies with the ultimate reality.

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

The EEG provided a record of rhythmic fluctuations in potential voltage over various parts of the head. Berger at first thought there was only one wave from the whole brain, but it soon became clear that the waves differed, depending on where the electrodes were put. Modern EEGs use as many as thirty-two separate channels, all over the head.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.

The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.

I'm here because I want to underscore how important this issue is," Berger explained to Rice. Later, in the West Wing of the White House, Berger told his successor, "You're going to spend more time during your four years on terrorism generally and bin Laden specifically than any issue.

One anti-Semitic member of the Labour party is one member too many.

Jonah Berger, who conducted an exhaustive study of "most e-mailed" links on the New York Times website and wrote a book about the results, Contagious:

Jonah Berger, who conducted an exhaustive study of "most e-mailed" links on the New York Times website and wrote a book about the results, Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

O foolish man, for God doth detect every nuance of the sick will!

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

The modern world is highly secular in certain parts, and nowhere more than in the world of the educated elites. Such people are notoriously "tone deaf" and their natural habitat is "a world without windows," as Weber and Berger have described them.