"What ails the world?... Looking superficially. most people would be inclined to say that it is poverty and hunger, greed, war, indifference to values, selfishness, and so forth. Probing deeper into the question, perhaps we can say that the world, suffers from the stupor of a lack of true intelligence.Humanity is not short of brain capacity or intellectual brilliance... It does seem to lack the intelligence necessary not to commit the same grievously harmful mistakes again and again."
Radhia Burnier"The Light Bearer"(as condensed in the Theosophical Digest, 1st Quarter 2005)
"Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way to grasping reality -- it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see."
- Terry Goodkind, "Faith of the Fallen"
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