Friedrich Schiller. As quoted by Baruch in his Foreword to the 1932 edition of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), by Charles Mackay.
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible—as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
— Friedrich Schiller on Bernard Baruch
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About Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.
About Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.
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