A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th...is molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led eith...er to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo- scholarship which actually destroys its object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an ea...rthquake, but an interview.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more fami...liarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo pro...blems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe th...e Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither ... can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath t...he heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to m...odernisation and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable.... What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy ... when left to itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry wa...s a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »