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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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