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One who would influence the masses must have recourse to the art of advertisement. The clamour of puffery is to-day requisite even for an intellectual movement.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
Imminent seems the collapse of that which for millennium has constituted man's universe.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
It is impalpable, illusory, transient; "'tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
"There is no God," cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)