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I Love Quotes From Books

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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That's a great one.

It reminds me of this one:

“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.”

― Umberto Eco, The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture
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@PhoenixPhail I like that one! In practical terms it can never work because its in the favour of those powers that be to have people in a hypnosis.
@SW-User Spot on!