3 Quotes Tagged: printing-press

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.

The difference between the man of print and the man of scribal culture is nearly as great as that between the non-literate and the literate.