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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Stanhope, Philip, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
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Man 's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos to the unknown which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination . The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background.


— H. P. Lovecraft, in "The Defence Remains Open!" (April 1921), published in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 53

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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.

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— p. 207. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)

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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.

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— Ch. IX (Zuleika Dobson (1911))

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A weak mind with no common sense magnifies trifling things and cannot receive great ones.


— Lord Chesterfield, in “Thoughts for Meaningful Life” p.96

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