“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
Edgar Allan Poe
in The Power of Stupidity – Giancarlo Livraghi,
(2009).
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The power of stupidity
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John Steinbeck
“It has always seemed strange to me that things we admire in men — kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling — are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest — sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest — are the traits of success.
And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.”
(John Steinbeck, «Cannery Row» published in 1945)
