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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
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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'!"
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"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."
"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."
"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life."
"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."
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