Eclecticism Quotes

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. (F. H. Bradley)
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. View quote
Hermann Broch
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. View quote
Elliott Erwitt
Such specialization and depersonalization of enquiry led inevitably to a taste for mere erudition and a temptation to eclecticism. View quote
Arnold Hauser
In their global eclecticism they recognize that no single society, no country or continent can presume to create a truly human culture for the world. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
[Mussolini] was not a theoretician but a tactician, whose intellectual eclecticism, a blend of anarchism and Marxism, as well as his emphasis on violence, resembled the ideology of the Russian Socialists-Revolutionaries. View quote
Richard Pipes
In Indian sufism anti-Hindu polemics began with Muin al-din Chishti. Early Sufis in the Punjab and early Chishtis devoted themselves to the task of conversion on a large scale. Missionary activity slowed down under Nizam al-din Auliya, not because of any new concept of eclecticism, but because he held that the Hindus were generally excluded from grace and could not be easily converted to Islam unless they had the opportunity to be in the company of the Muslim saints for considerable time. View quote
Moinuddin Chishti
Most of us will be eclectics to this side or that according to our temperament. The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. View quote
E. M. Forster
He discovers in them, therefore, necessary members of his spirit; he observes that both must be united in some common Principle. He infers that Eclecticism is nothing but the imperfect defective employment of this principle. View quote
Novalis
...But no matter how enamoured one may be with Postmodernist instability of meanings and signification slippage, absolutely nothing can make spinozisme as employed in Diderot's Promenade and the Encyclopédie, or in High Enlightenment literature, compatible with Revelation, divine providence, religious authority, theism, mysticism, fideism, eclecticism, moral relativism, Aristotelian substances, Platonic ideals, Prisca theologia (natural religion), Cartesian dualism, Lockean dualism based on supra rationem, double truth, fixity of species, Epicurean swerves, La Mettrie's materialism, or skepticism. ‘Spinozists' a term already in very wide use, in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy, as well as Holland well before 1700, and ‘spinozisme' as used in eighteenth-century France, can never mean, or ever be blended with, any of these trends. It may not always be a rigorous philosophical-theological category. (Baruch Spinoza)