#2,929

“To have faith in man” does not reach the level of blasphemy; it is just one more bit of stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,926

Demographic pressure makes people brutish.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,922

The fool, seeing that customs change, says that morality varies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,895

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,890

“Escapism” is the imbecile’s favorite accusation to make.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,859

So that one does not live depressed among so many foolish opinions, it behooves one to remember at every moment that things obviously are what they are, no matter what the world’s opinion is.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,847

For the fool, obsolete opinion and erroneous opinion are synonymous expressions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,815

The line between intelligence and stupidity is a shifting line.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451

#2,798

The most persuasive reason to renounce daring progressive opinions is the inevitability with which sooner or later the fool finally adopts them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449

#2,773

“Historical necessity” is usually just a name for human stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,760

A man does not become stultified by his prejudices unless he believes they are conclusions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,728

Among those elected by popular suffrage only the imbeciles are respectable, because the intelligent man had to lie in order to be elected.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,723

Stupidity appropriates what science invents with diabolical facility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,710

Whoever insists on refuting idiotic arguments ends up doing so with stupid reasons.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

#2,700

Mechanization is stultifying because it makes man believe that he lives in an intelligible universe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,695

The imbecile is betrayed less by what he says than by his diction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,684

Life is a daily struggle against one’s own stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,598

We reactionaries provide idiots the pleasure of feeling like daring avant-garde thinkers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

#2,597

Let us not give stupid opinions the pleasure of scandalizing us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

#2,529

Stupidities spread at the speed of light.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 407