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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx
Simple, Intelligent, Levels
Das Kapital vol. 1, ch. 16 (1867) (translation by Ben Fowkes)
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.