Best water & ignorant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.”

Running Past Humanity Universe Growth Water Rocks Cry Ignorant Enlightened Creeds Halt Running Water

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”

People Knows Water Space Consciousness Awareness Concerned Constant Fishes Details Backgrounds Ignorant Exceptional

Author:Alan Watts

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.”

People May Order Water Mines Mountain Army Stronger Clean Drinking Environmental Various Silly Ignorant Outcomes Assumption Paradise Engineers Greedy Mud Mixtures Acid Reservoirs Sewage

Author:Wendell Berry

“No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.”

Mind Character Turns Water Connected Ignorant Closets

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

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