Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse a conscience because we are afraid to tell the truth to others; we take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!
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Often it is not so much the kind of person a person is, as the kind of situation he finds himself in, that determines how he will act
Stanley Milgram, 1974 (via reemdrogo)
