Stefan Zweig Quote

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.


Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934), p. 116, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld


The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of...

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of...

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of...

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of...