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“The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.”

Knows Men Wells Lying Desire Waiting Fire Ignorance Fishes Foe Bait Moths Mesh

Author:Bhartrhari

“When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.”

Men Wells Persons States Use Dies Born Perfect Fire Ignorance Broken Pot Mud Potters Born Again Perfect Man True Knowledge

Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.”

Littles Learning Fire Ignorance Return Tasks

Author:Bayard Taylor

“For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.”

Ifs Knows Men Doe Life Is Fire Pieces Ignorance Wind Equal Structure Burning Strings Burned Ashes Trails Terrific Blast Powder Fuse Fire Burning Kegs

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew”

World Ideas Turns Creativity Creative Fire Ignorance Burning Awake Sparks Creative Power

Author:Michael Bassey

“[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.”

Soul White Hell Fire Ignorance Shadow Catholic My Soul Valleys Scar Superstitions Stifling Shadow Of Death Hell Fire

Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.”

Men Believe Lying Hell Fire Pieces Atheism Ignorance Taught Son Go To Hell

Author:Charles Chilton Moore

“No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.”

Ifs Knows Imagination Fire Ignorance Elements Harder Wide Range Vivid Plunge

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.”

Mean Moving Three Fire Ignorance Letting Go Greed Burning Moving On Poison Accomplished Dissatisfaction Letting Go And Moving On Can't Let Go Letting Go Of Anger Burning Fire

Book:Shinjo: Reflections

Source: Shinjo: Reflections

“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.”

“Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.”

“We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.”

Knows Death Fire Conditions Dying Ignorance Ignorant Ice Heavenly Death And Dying Melting Vanishing Dying Death Love And Death

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard