Posts Tagged With: Ignorance

rise up

 

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.


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a distant window

 

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.


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be we

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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human absurdity

 

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.


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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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slabber

 

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive;
the filth you cannot see.”

 

~ Jocelyn Murray ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.


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happy ending

 

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.


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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.


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the sin of the calf

 

“When they asked me what my religion was
I said that I was Non-Delusional.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.


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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.


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a sea of humanity

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.


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the inheritors

 

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in September 2017.


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imagine

 

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled
with the entrails of the last priest.”

 

~ Denis Diderot ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in New York City in April 1992.


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citadel

 

“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.


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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.
I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.


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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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les mensonges

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.


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doors of deception

 

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

 

~ L. Frank Baum ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.


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