A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.—Anatole France Various traditions consider knowledge to be essential for our happiness and for love. Accordingly, romantic ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Long-lasting marriages may thrive on love, compromise and increasing ignorance about one another. Couples married for an average of 40 years know less about one another’s ...

However paradoxical it might seem, ignorance has become an important focus of study in many academic disciplines, including economics, law, political science, philosophy, sociology and others. The ...

“Teaching Ignorance”: that’s the title of a famous essay by the literary critic Barbara Johnson, published in a 1982 issue of Yale French Studies that she edited under the rubric “The ...

In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, suggests that our passionate quest for knowledge is inextricable from our anxious retreat from ignorance.

Knowledge is often considered to be essential for love. Hence, romantic ignorance is constantly criticized. However, empirical evidence suggests that positive illusions are beneficial for romantic ...