The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
The proper study of mankind is books.
The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.