Brainpickings

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."

"There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illlusion."

"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

"We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.