Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gulli...bility of the most formidable consumers--the rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity trul...y diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitio...ns. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mi...ssion unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats out... of bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind--the mind of a fighter--in wh...ich the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to beli...eve all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »