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“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations”

World Long Remember Universe House Rooms Land Creation Ignorance Planets Huge Buddhism Standing Closets Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”

“Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.”

Helping Suffering Creation Ignorance Dimensions Ecstasy Limitless

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.”

“A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.”

Thinking Men Natural Creation Ignorance Ego Tendencies Proportion Arrogant Egotism Infancy

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.”

Persons Doe Shows Action Creation Greatness Ignorance Creator Dues

Author:Ibn Rajab

“The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.”

Men States Reality Government Individual Existence Creation Ignorance Devil Shadow Reflexes Ignorance And Fear Creation Of Man

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.”

People War Memories Cases Issues Generations Media Creation Ignorance West Iraq Manipulation My Generation Iraq War Media Manipulation Invading Iraq

Author:Julian Assange

“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”

“My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.”

Facts Would Be Records Creation Ignorance Models Volume Constructs

Author:Peter Blegvad

“It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.”

Thinking Giving Facts Easy Plans Design Creation Ignorance Expression Unity Explanation Etc

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.”

Thinking Believe Humans Whole Order I Believe Violence Creation Ignorance Destruction Chaos Valuable Ideology Gentleness Carpe Diem Carpe Vendetta

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.”

Knows Real Matter God Government Law Science Force Pieces Creation Ignorance Mouths Accounts Infinite Doctrine Ignorant Code Abandon Priests Deities Interpreter

Book:An Oration on the Gods

Source: An Oration on the Gods

“Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.”