“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
