"Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic."
"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism."
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Source: Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with The Resumption of History in the New Century”, p.309, Harvard University Press
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