We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! read more
[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.
Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.
Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life.
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, read more
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
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.
