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704 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
"We often dazzle ourselves by adopting as our own many an idea and observation which either leaps vividly to mind from a time when we have read it, or else is present in the total consciousness of the age - yes, even as I write this observation now - perhaps this too is the result of the experience of the age."
"The crowd will always regard a man of great understanding as lacking judgement."
"It is an agony to have to live in such a way that [...] I have to let [the public] think me mad just to be allowed to think - otherwise a great fuss may be made about me, I will have to tap my wine glass and make speeches at gatherings, loved and honored by all of those who do not think."
"What pains me most [...} is not the loutishness of the mob but the way the better people secretly participate in it."