Sublime

One day, I said to my mother, “Mom, if I get a job, could I quit school?” “Don’t you want an education?” she asked. “Not if I have to go to school for it!” I boldly replied.

Dr. Maurice Rosenau, in his Pan-Galactic Humbug or. Three Billion Dupes says:

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

He who is only a traveller learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Walter Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”

“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated,” Gustave Le Bon noted in his 1895 classic on crowd psychology.