“We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement, and then do not reach it.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
“How seldom we notice rooftops; how easily our eyes are drawn to the more flamboyant attractions of a Roman temple or Renaissance church.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
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