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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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