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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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"You don't know it... but you can play dumb - right!?"
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"No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it."
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"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."
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"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"
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"It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony."
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"So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment."
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"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
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"Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth."
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"Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
War
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Politics
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Freedom
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Wisdom
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
Politics
"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Education
"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
Truth
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
Wisdom
"Taste cannot be controlled by law."
Justice
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Politics
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