Fashionable Ideas Quotes

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.