“Evil is the conscious desire to produce suffering where suffering is not necessary”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“To suffer is to produce knowledge.”
The New Gods (1969)
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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
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“The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.”
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“Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.”
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Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) French philosopher
Variant: Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production...
Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.4
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Letter from Naples, Italy to Otto Grautoff (1896); as quoted in A Gorgon's Mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction (2005) by Lewis A. Lawson, p. 34
Context: I think of my suffering, of the problem of my suffering. What am I suffering from? From knowledge — is it going to destroy me? What am I suffering from? From sexuality — is it going to destroy me? How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it! How I hate it, this sensuality, which claims everything fine and good is its consequence and effect. Alas, it is the poison that lurks in everything fine and good! — How am I to free myself of knowledge? By religion? How am I to free myself of sexuality? By eating rice?
Harold Demsetz (1930–2019) American economist
Source: "Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint." (1969), p. 19; cited in: Eggertsson (1990; 23)
