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- To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived…
- Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are…
- Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
- Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
- The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you,…
- Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
- This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not…
- I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is…
- Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
- History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
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