“The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality – or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the “thinking,” “educated” class take ideas as more veridical than facts.”

“The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality – or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the “thinking,” “educated” class take ideas as more veridical than facts.”

— Robert Conquest