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“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

Humans Kind Littles Philosophy Turns Natural Perfect Results Moral Ignorance Weakness Observation Spite Portions Blindness Metaphysical Endeavour Elude

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.”

Men Action Ignorance Civilization League Collectives Frightened Blindness Reassurance Bewilderment Collective Action

Book:The Unfinished Country

Source: The Unfinished Country

“Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.”

Whole Darkness Ignorance Blindness Alertness

Author:Rajneesh

“That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN”

Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”

Life Inspirational Eye Easy Ignorance Blindness Misunderstanding Closed Eyes Greatest Beatles Rock Song

Author:John Lennon

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

Way Inspirational Believe Two Inspiration Truth Ignorance Refuse Blindness Two Ways Fooled Willful Ignorance

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.”

Knows Men Mind Evil Consciousness Seeing Ignorance Source Vices Blindness Refusal Suspension

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.”

Certain Ignorance Blindness Tolerable

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Christian Darkness Ignorance Delusion Priests Milk Cows Blindness Preventing Foreseeing

Book:In Praise of Folly

Source: In Praise of Folly

“And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.”

Ifs Has Beens Matter Seems Happens Causes Views Lord Saws Wise Ignorance Luck Accidents Point Of View Providence Blindness Our Lord Lord God Foreseeing

Author:Julian of Norwich

“If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.”

Ifs Men Religion Order Imagination Ignorance Worship Weakness Atheist Profit Favors Tyranny Deception Customs Spares Blindness Rapture Ignorance And Fear

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”