Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the la...bors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the... memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entire...ly dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under ...the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is because the public are a mass--inert, obtuse, and passive--that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can t...ell from their bear-like grunts where they are--and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One had a cat's face, One whisked a tail,... One tramped at a rat's pace, One crawled like a snail, One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry, One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »