Man braucht Weisheit,um Weisheit zu erkennen: die Musik ist gar nichts, wenn das Publikum taub ist.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Weisheit, TaubheitWalter LippmannThe study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
Walter LippmannThe radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter LippmannSocial movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter LippmannWhat we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann