multitude

is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him... if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd... the source of political wisdom and virtue. Ina republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. 'In a multitudeof consellors there is wisdom,' saith the proverb. If many men ofequal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must bethat they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of gettingtogether. Whence comes it' Obviously from nowhere -as well saythat a range of mountains is higher than the single mountainscomposing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obeyhim... if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.

is fickle in temperament, and while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion.

For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. Niccolo Machiavelli

is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins to think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins to think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible. Niccolo Machiavelli

1s 2ruth is simply that which it continually reads and hears.

What is truth' For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. Oswald Spengler

is a thing which, wherever it is, there too is truth, for truth itself needs to have the multitude on its side.

There is one view of life that holds that wherever the multitude is, there, too, is the truth'that truth itself needs to have the multitude on its side. There is another view of life that holds that wherever the multitude is, there is untruth, so that even if every individual, silently and separately, possessed the truth, nonetheless if they assembled in a multitude (in such a way that the multitude had any sort of decisive, electoral, noisy, audible significance), then untruth would immediately be present.

is a thing which, wherever it is, there is untruth, and even if every individual, silently and separately, possessed the truth, nonetheless if they assembled in a multitude then untruth would immediately be present.

is unable to understand that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Arthur Schopenhauer

is a mob, the raw materials of democracy, which is the poor cousin of a republic

multitude, n.All

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