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“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.”

Ifs May Action Law Perfect Written Identity Ignorance Possession Assumption Reasonable Treatment

Book:The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

“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

“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

“Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.”

World Perfect Cutting Ignorance Mines Indifference Diamond Doomed Deaf Dazzling

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.”

Happens Order Speak Perfect Fashion Ignorance Shapes Dresses Metaphor Tricks Architect Conform Gothic Corinthians Snobby French Woman

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.”

World Perfect Knowing Ignorance Opposites Longing Worthy Dues Contradiction Lovable

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.”

Perfect Ignorance Quiet Former Latter Transition

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.”

Ideas Law Perfect Animal Magic Ignorance Eating Oneself Genuine Meat Nonsense Mysticism Faculty Primitive

Author:Franz Bardon

“No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.”

Ifs Should Perfect Pleasure Ignorance Conclusion Gift From God

Book:The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick

Source: The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick

“Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”

Soul Stories Eye Stars Perfect Ignorance Mercy Terror Terrorism Silver Covered Calligraphy

Book:I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.”

People Believe Wells Ideas Real Lasts Dies Belief Perfect Powerful Fantasy Imagine Ignorance Concepts Stones Woods Choke Unreal

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.”

Giving Would Be Science Sound Ability Perfect Knowledge Doubt Impossible Ignorance Theory Capacity Infinite Method Convinced Certainty Probability Infinite Knowledge

Author:William Stanley Jevons