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The Declaration of Independence guaranteed among other things the right to the pursuit of happiness. Since it is known that ignorance is bliss, any attempts to teach me deprives me of that happiness, and therefore violates my inalienable rights as a human being.
-- Calvin & Hobbes
"When ‘the common good’ of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals."
Zen, supposed to be the essence of Buddhism, is closest, not to the
moralizing of Confucius or the philosophizing of [the] Buddha but to the
silent bowing the head before what is neither good nor bad, neither true nor
untrue.
-- Frederick Franck
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