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Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. So be it.
“The trouble with the world was,” she continued hesitatingly, “that people were still superstitious instead of scientific. He said if everybody would study science more, there wouldn’t be all the trouble there was.”
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
“Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.”
Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everything must have a purpose?” asked God. “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away.
‘Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
the heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality, and the heartbreaking impossibility of lying about it.
