I think expecting school children to understand "thoughtful, rational consideration of whether support or criticism is appropriate in any given instance" or "thoughtful, sophisticated cosmopolitism" in elementary school is, after all, asking a lot. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perhaps it does more good than bad and we'd be worse off living without patriotism/nationalism, but I think we should be honest about why they are useful--and its not to foster thoughtful, sophisticated cosmopolitism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dotted with quaint architecture of 12th and 13th century Romanesque and Gothic design, the hills of Vienne department, France, cradle the crystal-clear and drowsy-moving waters of the Gartempe, a river, which in its course winds through the town of Montmorillon, where four thousand French peasantry, on August 7th, received their first lesson in American cosmopolitism. ❋ William Elmer Bachman (N/A)
The family of Cæsar, placed in the centre of the great struggle going on in Rome between the old Roman militarism, and the intellectual civilisation of the Orient, between nationalism and cosmopolitism, between Asiatic mysticism and traditional religion, between egoism over-excited by culture and wealth, and the supreme interests of the species, had to injure too many interests, to offend too many susceptibilities. ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)
Christianity -- cosmopolitism, mysticism, the domination of intellectual people, the influence of the philosophical and metaphysical spirit on life. ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)
What indeed entitles either Madame de Sevigne or Rahel to fame, but their very nationality -- that intensely local style of language and feeling which clothes their genius with a living body instead of leaving it in the abstractions of a dreary cosmopolitism? ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
This was in a manner also the finale of the German notes that so strangely resounded in that Gallic time; the restoration suppressed every further outburst of patriotism, and the patriotic spirit that had begun to breathe forth in verse once more gave place to cosmopolitism and Gallicism. ❋ Wolfgang Menzel (1835)
With warm affections, and benevolence guided and governed in its objects by reason and religion; indulgent to human nature in general, and loving it, but not with German cosmopolitism -- first and best, loving her daughter, her family, comprising ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)
There may come a higher virtue in both — just cosmopolitism. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
It would be a fine national custom to act such a series of dramatic histories in orderly succession, in the yearly Christmas holidays, and could not but tend to counteract that mock cosmopolitism, which under a positive term really implies nothing but a negation of, or indifference to, the particular love of our country. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
There may come a higher virtue in both -- just cosmopolitism. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
The cosmopolitism which does not spring out of, and blossom upon, the deep-rooted stem of nationality or patriotism, is a spurious and rotten growth. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
To struggle for democracy and for social progress, to re-build on this foundation the peoples 'internationalism against capital's cosmopolitism, such is the challenge the left must take up all the world over. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But light has not seen: its author have accused of cosmopolitism, vulgarity, the composition of pseudoscientific theories and the book to manufacture have not admitted. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"It would be a fine national custom to act such a series of dramatic histories in orderly succession, in the yearly Christmas holidays, and could not but tend to counteract that mock cosmopolitism, which, under ❋ James Gillman (N/A)
"You constantly forget the treaty of cosmopolitism. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
[in terms of] definition c) mentioned above, a person can [very well] be a cosmopolite and still live in [the countryside] ❋ Sexydimma (2013)
[Oh my gosh], those [gay guys] are so cosmopolitical. ❋ Inner-circle (2010)
Ben spends so much time [debating] with [JSA] and reading the Wall Street Journal. Jumped right onto the cosmopolitics [bandwagon]. ❋ Rabid Devize (2006)
