Majority Quotes (7)
A Los Angeles surgeon who smokes (but doesn't inhale), contends that 'For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect, far better for you than taking tranquilizers.'
Quoted in Newsweek (18 Nov 1969), 62, Pt. 2, 66. A misguided comment, often seen as the shortened quote 'For the majority ... beneficial effect' in a list of regrettable remarks, without the fuller context of the quote given here. MacDonald was quoted in the article to be an example that physicians were not unanimous in their attitudes against smoking. The quote is a opinion expressed to the reporter; it was not the result of scholarly research.
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.
Science and Method (1914, 2003), 117-118.
See also: | Attention (7) | Education (124) | Mathematics (226) | Mind (125) | Problem (72) | Skeleton (4) | Solution (49) | Understanding (99)
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
An Enemy of the People (1882), Act IV. In Ghosts and two Other Plays (1911), 218.
Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
See also: | Minority (4)
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again— the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (—that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind—one loses it when one no longer needs it.
[Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]
[Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]
The Twilight of the Idols (1888), translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christ (1990), 67. Also see alternate translations.
See also: | Charles Darwin (171) | Evolution (237) | Intellect (52) | Origin Of Species (30) | Perfection (14) | Species (52) | Survival (15) | Weak (4)
Species do not evolve towards perfection: the weak always prevail over the strong—simply because they are the majority, and because they are also the more crafty. Darwin forgot the intellect (that is English!), the weak have more intellect. In order to acquire intellect, one must be in need of it. One loses it when one no longer needs it.
[Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]
[Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]
The Twilight of the Idols (1888) collected in Twilight of the Idols, with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo, translated by Anthony M. Ludovici (2007), 56. Also see alternate translations.
See also: | Crafty (2) | Charles Darwin (171) | Evolution (237) | Intellect (52) | Origin Of Species (30) | Species (52) | Survival (15) | Weak (4)
The species does not grow in perfection: the weak again and again get the upper hand of the strong,—and their large number and their greater cunning are the cause of it. Darwin forgot the intellect (that was English!); the weak have more intellect. ... One must need intellect in order to acquire it; one loses it when it is no longer necessary.
[Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]
[Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]
The Twilight of the Idols (1888) collected in The Case of Wagner: Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, translated by Thomas Common (1896), 177. Also see alternate translations.
See also: | Crafty (2) | Charles Darwin (171) | Evolution (237) | Intellect (52) | Origin Of Species (30) | Species (52) | Survival (15) | Weak (4)
