The Worlds of American Intellectual History Quotes

“right to privacy” was not enunciated in formal terms in the United States until 1890, nor would it be enshrined in constitutional law until the 1960s.”
― Joel Isaac, The Worlds of American Intellectual History

“Campbell, a prominent midcentury wisdom seeker, was asked by the Zen Buddhist popularizer Alan Watts what he did for spiritual exercise, Campbell answered, “I underline sentences.”
― Joel Isaac, The Worlds of American Intellectual History

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― Joel Isaac, The Worlds of American Intellectual History