When people of better class form a society for promoting some noble or ideal aim, the innumerable mob of humanity crowds in like vermin to relieve their boredom, seizing upon the purpose without discrimination, and eventually either destroying it or altering it to mean the opposite of its original aim.
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“when men of the better class form a society for promoting some Noble or ideal aim the result almost always is that the innumerable mob of humanity comes crowding into too as it always does everywhere like Vermin”
Source
Schopenhauer: Self-Sufficiency is the Key to Happiness | Counsels & Maxims 9— Christopher AnadaleCreated: 8/12/2026, 10:37:02 PM
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