Alienation Quote by John le Carre

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a…

— Erving Goffman

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before.…

— Erich Fromm

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

— Stephen Charnock

“The ordinary man thinks that yielding to doubts and worries is a sign of sensibility, of spirituality. Acting thus, he remains distant from the…

— Paulo Coelho

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill…

— John Hurt

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him,…

— Theodor Adorno

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

— Mark Twain

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has…

— George Orwell

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

— Thomas Mann

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or…

— William James