Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 32 | And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How View more quotes about mighty">mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 29 | One who guards his mind, as one might guard a prisoner. |
| 1 | 30 | One who so treasures his mind that he dares not use it. |
| 1 | 31 | His bulwark is stupidity. |
| 1 | 32 | And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal. |
| 1 | 33 | He is unworthy of the stars. |
| 1 | 34 | Yet there is in that life form a spark of awareness, for all its frivolity and frailty, for all its egregious contumely and its hideous ineptitude, a flicker of mind, however reluctant, in a largely oblivious, somnolent world. |
| 1 | 35 | It is one of the rare places the universe has stirred, and awakened, and opened its eye, and looked upon itself, startled to learn that it exists. |
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One who guards his mind, as one might guard a prisoner.
One who so treasures his mind that he dares not use it.
His bulwark is stupidity.
And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal.
He is unworthy of the stars.
Yet there is in that life form a spark of awareness, for all its frivolity and frailty, for all its egregious contumely and its hideous ineptitude, a flicker of mind, however reluctant, in a largely oblivious, somnolent world.
It is one of the rare places the universe has stirred, and awakened, and opened its eye, and looked upon itself, startled to learn that it exists.
- (Kur of Gor)