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I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often read more
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes read more
Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him read more
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
The classes and the masses.
The classes and the masses.