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Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

Umberto Eco
Four, Fool, Normal
Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.