"To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need."

-- Ivan Illich

#Ignorant Quotes #Desire Quotes #Needs Quotes

“But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.”
“If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.”

Source : Lanford Wilson (1994). “Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.”

Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.3 (published 1831).
“If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.”
“Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.”
“Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.”
“What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.”
“If you don't play to win don't play at all.”

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