“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelli
gence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses
is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists
not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation,
through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal
of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure"
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“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelli gence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure"
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