Dummheit

He said: "Arroganz ist die Kunst, auf seine eigene Dummheit stolz zu sein"—arrogance is the art to take pride in one's own stupidity.

There's Smart and There's Wise, Humble and Effective 2011

(Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)

Matthew Yglesias » Bruce Bartlett Struggles in Vain Against Stupidity 2009

Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens

Think Progress » Graham says GOP should stop demonizing climate change: You’re risking ‘your party’s future with younger people.’ 2010

Ich weiss nicht, ob es Dummheit oder wirklich nur Neugierde war, … unitstep. net Says:

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One of the widows with whom R flirts is characterized as ein Dummchen; and for two pages Walser rings the changes on Dummheit in all its aspects.

The Genius of Robert Walser Coetzee, J.M. 2000

Satirical also is his vision in Chapter VII, in which he beholds the temple of stupidity where lofty stupidity sits on a paper throne; and of particular significance here is the explanation that the whole company who do “erhabene Dummheit” honor formerly lived in cities of the kingdom, but “now they are on journeys.”

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

P. 5: Gut, ich gebe euch mein Wort, dass neun unter zehnmal eines jeden Witz oder Dummheit.

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

This is the maxim of a book, "Über die Dummheit" 7 (1886), one of the wisest ever written.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Schopenhauer says that the intelligent man finds everything funny, the logical man nothing; and according to Erdmann (in Über die Dummheit), the distressing or laughable characteristics of an object, shows not its nature, but the nature of the observer.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

[8] ` ` Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. ''

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906