Homo Ignorans: Deliberately Choosing Not to Know

Ralph Hertwig · Christoph Engel

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Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.(Gray, 1747

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