#2,868

The glory of the truly great writers is a glory artificially imposed on the public, an academic and subsidized glory.
Authentic, popular, spontaneous glory crowns none but mediocre men.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,788

It is above all against what the crowd proclaims to be “natural” that the noble soul rebels.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,756

Even the most austere rulers end up attending the circus in order to please the crowd.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,657

Where even the last vestige of feudal ties disappears, the increasing social isolation of the individual and his increasing helplessness fuse him into a totalitarian mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,600

When we aim high, there is no public capable of knowing whether we hit our target.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

#2,478

Political scientists learnedly analyze the squawking, howling, [and] growling of the animals on board, while the maelstrom of the masses silently pushes the ship from one shore to another.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 399

#2,452

The public does not begin to welcome an idea except when intelligent contemporaries begin to abandon it.
No light reaches the masses but that of dead stars.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,411

In groups of humans, only the defects of those who join the group get added up.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#2,081

The phenomenon of the degradation of the people into rabble is the same, no matter whether it is into poor rabble or rich rabble.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 337

#1,997

The most shameless spectacle is that of the voluptuous throbbing with which a crowd listens to the orator who adores it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,934

With the disappearance of the upper class, there is nowhere to take refuge from the smugness of the middle class and the rudeness of the lower class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,880

To induce us to adopt them, stupid ideas adduce the immense public that shares them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,866

Rather than against the masses that insult them, we must defend our truths against the defenders that bring them down to the masses’ level.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,786

The public is not convinced except by the conclusions of syllogisms of whose premises they are ignorant.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#814

Visiting a museum or reading a classic are, for the contemporary masses, simple ethical requirements.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 149

#755

The mob only believes it is thinking freely when its reason surrenders itself into the hands of collective enthusiasms.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 136

#695

The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad.
The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 127

#470

What is vulgar is not what the crowd does, but rather what pleases it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 92

#426

The whims of the incompetent crowd are called public opinion, and the expert’s judgments private opinion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 85

#367

To the masses what matters is not whether they are free, but whether they believe they are free.
Whatever cripples their freedom does not alarm them, unless they are told it should.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 76