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# The Jingling Bells of Publicity - Commonplaces
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/jake-jingling-bells-publicity/
- Published: 2016-12-31T11:52:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T20:12:12.000Z
- Description: A. D. Sertillanges offers a devastating rebuke of much of the work done by today's "public intellectuals."
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Jake Meador

Sertillanges:

> The jingling bells of publicity tempt only frivolous minds. Ambition offends eternal truth by subordinating truth to itself. Is it not a sacrilege to play with the questions that dominate life and death, with mysterious nature, with God—to achieve some literary or philosophical celebrity at the expense of the true and independently of the true?