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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."
"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."
"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."
"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."
"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."
"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"
"Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome, stupidity is much harder."
Explore more quotes by Socrates
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."
"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."
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