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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
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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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"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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"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
Evolution
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Reflection
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Democracy
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
Religion
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
Religion
"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
Marriage
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
Unity
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