“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.”
— Kage Baker, book Mendoza in Hollywood
Part 3 “The Island Out There” Chapter 2 (p. 294)
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
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Context: It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
The same is true of what we write: it walks and it talks, but it can be dead-alive or alive-alive. What is truly alive stops before nothing and ceaselessly seeks answers to absurd, "childish" questions. Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken — errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. And if answers be impossible of attainment, all the better! Dealing with answered questions is the privilege of brains constructed like a cow's stomach, which, as we know, is built to digest cud.