“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects, classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make, between the beautiful and the ugly, the distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective classifications is expressed or betrayed.”
― Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
― Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
“You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Individualism has a bad name today, and the term has come to be connected with egotism and selfishness.7 But the individualism of which we speak in contrast to socialism and all other forms of collectivism has no necessary connection with these. Only gradually in the course of this book shall we be able to make clear the contrast between the two opposing principles.”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
“The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning.”
― The Philosophy of History
― The Philosophy of History
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