“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”
― A Tramp Abroad
― A Tramp Abroad
“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
― Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen
― Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself.
[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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