"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression"
- Joseph Jarman
About this Quote
The quote suggests that our society worths intellectualism over human expression, bring about a splitting up between both. The focus put on intellectualism creates an illusion that human expression is not valid or important. This might lead to a lack of appreciation for forms of expression such as art or songs, which do not necessarily call for scholastic expertise or intelligence. The quote suggests a need for culture to identify the value of different types of expression, regardless of their degree of intellectualism.
This quote is written / told by Joseph Jarman somewhere between September 14, 1937 and today. He/she was a famous Musician from USA.
The author also have 21 other quotes.
"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"
"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"
"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process"
"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world"
