“The populace is a true museum of all the stupidities of the ages: it swallows everything, it admires everything, it preserves everything, it defends everything, it understands nothing.”
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L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)
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Louis-ferdinand Céline 88
French writer 1894–1961Related quotes
“The Sophist demonstrates that everything is true and nothing is true.”
Source: 1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841), p. 205
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
Leo
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
This is generally reported as a French proverb, and one familiar as such in Russia as well, in many 19th and 20th century works; it seems to have first become attributed to Gautama Buddha without citation of sources in Farm Journal, Vol. 34 (1910), p. 417
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El hombre habla de todo y habla de todo como si el conocimiento de todo estuviese todo en él.
Voces (1943)
“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”
“The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.”
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 101
