Showing posts with label prejudices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prejudices. Show all posts

Friday, January 22, 2010

Well, so to speak

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)