All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
Walter LippmannBetween ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into all our thinking. Between us and the realities of social life we build up a mass of generalizations, abstract ideas, ancient glories, and personal wishes. They simplify and soften experience. It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves. We worry about their fate and forget their original content.
Walter LippmannThere is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.
Walter LippmannWhat a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
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When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Walter LippmannIf we ask ourselves what is this wisdom which experience forces upon us, the answer must be that we discover the world is not constituted as we had supposed it to be. It is not that we learn more about its physical elements, or its geography, or the variety of its inhabitants, or the ways in which human society is governed. Knowledge of this sort can be taught to a child without in any way disturbing his childishness. In fact, all of us are aware that we once knew a great many things which we have since forgotten. The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.
Walter LippmannTo create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
Walter LippmannIf you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.
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