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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable — as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable — as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead

November 12, 2016 Nate

“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable—as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.”

– German philosopher Johann Friedrich von Schiller


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