
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 34
Source: Kim
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 34
“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”
“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”
Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
“Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.”
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 86
“For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Response to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, as quoted in TIME magazine (1 November 1963)
“I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
Machiavel, Prologue
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860