The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and ...deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pu...lp, disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment ...of all ethical standards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensi...bly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »