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Education is not a function of any church — or even of a city — or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

— Philip Wylie Generation of Vipers (1942)

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What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

When Worlds Collide (1933)

The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific integrity about all he is and does — instead of half of it.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

Our commonest man, emulating his superiors, forges ahead with a brick on the safety valve of his conscience.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

There is no advance without strife.

After Worlds Collide (1934)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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