The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that's more terr...
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.
Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I fo...
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been per...
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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