7 Max Beerbohm Quotes on Psychology

Max Beerbohm quotes on psychology

14. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

21. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilization. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost -- he becomes a unit in unreason.

22. A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

23. Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

24. Just as 'pluck' comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.

28. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

33. To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.