Appendix

Topical Quotes on Ignorance and Simplicity/Complexity:

Flattery and insult are born out of ignorance. Receive them both kindly.

The human being is irrational. Right? And as long as he is functioning irrationally, he says of any rational factor, ‘I refuse to see it.’

I can’t go back. If for example, if I see all the religious nonsense, it is finished.

I think the human brain is not a particular brain; it doesn’t belong to me, or to anyone else. It is the human brain which evolved over millions of years. And in that evolution it has gathered tremendous experience, knowledge and all the cruelties, vulgarities and brutalities of selfishness. Is there a possibility of its sloughing off all this, and becoming something else? Because apparently ...

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