“In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.” FactsShowsRealityFormNamesLanguageGivenFictionIgnoranceCircumstancesEverydayCeaseDeceptionDimensionsTelling The TruthCollapseReignSubmissionReality Shows Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.” SelfIgnoranceDeceptionPersistInjuredSelf Deception Author:Marcus Aurelius
“We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.” AnimalIgnoranceProductsIndustryEmptyProfitFatsConfusionDeceptionMisfortunesRefinedSpoonsCaloriesSaturated Author:Kris Carr
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.” IfsThinkingPersonsSelfShowsTruthAbleMeditationIgnoranceDeceptionWrongShow MeSelf DeceptionOpen MindedWise Man Once SaidOpen MindednessNarrow-minded Author:Marcus Aurelius
“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.” ThinkingWorldHumansDoeSelfWisdomUnderstandingKnowingMysteryIgnoranceFoolLimitsMarkGenuineDestroyedLimitationDeceptionSelf Deception Author:Mortimer Adler
“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.” MindSelfBornIgnoranceDutyTemptationDeceptionRise AboveOwing Author:Sivananda
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.” IfsSelfShowsActionMistakeIgnoranceProveHarmDeceptionPersistShow MeSelf DeceptionMy MistakesProve To MeProve Me Wrong Book:Meditations Source: Meditations
“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.” IfsMenReligionOrderImaginationIgnoranceWorshipWeaknessAtheistProfitFavorsTyrannyDeceptionCustomsSparesBlindnessRaptureIgnorance And Fear Author:Baron d'Holbach
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” PeopleKnowsMenKindDoeLonelinessStupidIgnoranceTrustFameBetrayalJournalismVanityDeceptionJournalistBetrayRemorse Author:Janet Malcolm