Quotes by Ignorance How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions. Baron d'Holbach ignorance men thinking If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. Baron d'Holbach ignorance atheist knowledge The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. Baron d'Holbach nature ignorance animal Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them. Baron d'Holbach ignorance real men When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose. Barrows Dunham differences ignorance class In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. Barry Lopez land ignorance fall I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. Bartolome de las Casas ignorance writing order [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance. Baruch Spinoza ignorance running way Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined. Baruch Spinoza ignorance men thinking Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. Baruch Spinoza ignorance taken mean The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. Baruch Spinoza pride ignorance self I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. Baruch Spinoza latter superstitions ignorance Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge. Bashar al-Assad ignorance revenge hands Learn to live, and live to learn, Bayard Taylor learning ignorance fire Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. Becca Fitzpatrick ignorance suffering life To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance. Behdad Sami ignorant prove ignorance The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Bela Lugosi ignorance mean lying The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it. Ben Elton keys ignorance book Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance . Ben Jonson ignorance enemy art I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth. Ben Jonson ignorance men science «7891011121314151617»