TuesdayAug 18, 2026
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Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York - May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was an educational philosopher, a president of the University of Chicago (1929 - 1945) and its chancellor (1945 - 1951).
Philosophy is systematic reflection upon the common experience of mankind.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic, criteria.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
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