Quote by Rebecca West
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. – Rebecca West

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. – Terry Pratchett

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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individuals intelligence or morality. – Christian Lous Lange

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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality – not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate – is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. – Oliver Joseph Lodge

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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests. – King Abdullah II

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