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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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“According to the account of his defence at his trial, recorded by Plato, Socrates chose death rather than face a life of ignorance: “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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“there is only one good: knowledge; and one evil: ignorance.”
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.”
― 1984
― 1984
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