The man who thinks like a petty bourgeois notices directly observable facts and immediately draws hasty generalizations without the slightest analysi… - Alexander Zinoviev

The scientific mind produces abstractions, the anti-scientific mind destroys them under the pretext that they do not take into account this or that factor. The scientific spirit establishes rigorous notions, the anti-scientific spirit, under the pretext of encompassing the multiplicity of reality, gives them various meanings. The scientific mind avoids using means that it can do without. The anti-scientific spirit is firing on all cylinders. The scientific mind seeks to simplify and clarify. The anti-scientific spirit confuses and complicates. The scientific mind strives to trivialize what seems unusual. The anti-scientific spirit aims for the sensational and likes to surround the most ordinary phenomena with mystery. p.287

[...] literature plays a sort of ideological role; it instills in men perspectives of humanity. p. 132

There is a sociological law according to which systems which have contact end up looking alike... p. 138 and 144