Mass Understanding Quotes

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

As both Christianity and Judaism have done, Islam can not only survive but thrive in a secular state. Once disassociated from coercive power, it will witness a renewal of spirituality….The secular state has not killed religion; rather, it has put a brake on the state’s manipulation of religion. It took three centuries of efforts by many European philosophers and several revolutions for this fundamental nuance to be developed, accepted, and made understandable to the masses.

Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images.

The public mind is a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.