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Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon quotes: Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.