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Gustave Flaubert
: Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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At times, American foreign policy has been farsighted, simultaneously serving our national interests, our ideals, and the interests of other nations. At other times American policies have been misguided, based on false assumptions that ignore the legitimate aspirations of other peoples, undermine our own credibility, and make for a more dangerous world.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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Never underestimate your own ignorance.
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Evolution embodies information in every part of every organism. ... This information doesn't have to be copied into the brain at all. It doesn't have to be "represented" in "data structures" in the nervous system. It can be exploited by the nervous system, however, which is designed to rely on, or exploit, the information in the hormonal systems just as it is designed to rely on, or exploit, the information embodied in your limbs and eyes. So there is wisdom, particularly about preferences, embodied in the rest of the body. By using the old bodily systems as a sort of sounding board, or reactive audience, or critic, the central nervous system can be guided - sometimes nudged, sometimes slammed - into wise policies. Put it to the vote of the body, in effect. ... When all goes well, harmony reigns and the various sources of wisdom in the body cooperate for the benefit of the whole, but we are all too familiar with the conflicts that can provoke the curious outburst "My body has a mind of its own!" Sometimes, apparently, it is tempting to lump together some of the embodied information into a separate mind. Why? Because it is organized in such a way that it can sometimes make independent discriminations, consult preferences, make decisions, enact policies that are in competition with your mind. At such time, the Cartesian perspective of a puppeteer self trying desperately to control an unruly body-puppet is very powerful. Your body can vigorously betray the secrets you are desperately trying to keep - by blushing and trembling or sweating, to mention only the most obvious cases. It can "decide" that in spite of your well-laid plans, right now would be a good time for sex, not intellectual discussion, and then take embarrassing steps in preparation for a coup d'etat. On another occasion, to your even greater chagrin and frustration, it can turn a deaf ear on your own efforts to enlist it for a sexual campaign, forcing you to raise the volume, twirl the dials, try all manner of preposterous cajolings to persuade it.
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Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.
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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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"What's more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp and a book, listening to the wind beating against the windows?" "How true!" she said, her great dark eyes fixed widely on him. "I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times," he said. "The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of -- I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters -- I live and breathe with them."
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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