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What does it mean?
Ignorance leads people to worship things they do not comprehend.
In plain terms
People worship what they cannot understand because they are ignorant.
What can you take from it?
True understanding reduces blind admiration.

Where it applies

  • religious practice
  • authority figures
  • new technology

Putting it to work

  • educate yourself
  • question authority
  • seek clarity

Questions to consider

  • What do you worship without knowing?
  • Does knowing kill awe?

Another view

Mystery can inspire awe even without full understanding.

More from Cesare Lombroso

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  2. Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

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  3. Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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