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Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
We often despise what is most useful to us.
We often despise what is most useful to us.
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human read more
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.
