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“The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.”

Persons Soul Helping Desire Universe Evil Given Causes Imagine Limits Aim Property Errors Ignorant Insufficient

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.”

Needs Desire Social Citizens Capitalism Conviction Ignorant Alternatives Renunciation Good Citizen Unforgivable Anti Social

Author:Ivan Illich

“Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.”

Way Desire Ignorant Advisors

Book:The Piano Teacher

Source: The Piano Teacher

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”

Knows Feels Desire Ignorance Higher Curiosity Ignorant Pursue Burning Vow Solemn

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”

Knows World Persons Care Desire Individual Felt My Own Existence Destiny Millions New York Strange Concerned Ignorant Hopeful Insignificant Mold Unimportant Strange World

Book:Daughter of Earth

Source: Daughter of Earth