“Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Everyone already has a Buddha nature inside of them, but it is almost impossible to see and feel as our awareness is… — Ian Tuhovsky Copy Share Image
“Half your life is spent in thinking of the past and the other half in thinking about the future. The journey never… — Osho Copy Share Image
“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“There was once a lady who was arrogant and proud. Determined to attain enlightenment, she asked all the authorities how to go… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs… — Jennifer Skiff Copy Share Image
Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“4. The Third Step in the Mental Training. To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, which, in a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“This [worldly life] is nature’s mysterious puzzle. No one has become free from it. And those who did become free, did not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“8. The Application of the Law of Causation to Morals. Although it may be needless to state here the law of causation… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Essentially, thought and emotion. If you make these two things unimportant, there is room for something to happen. Life is very, very… — Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudevuru Copy Share Image
“The point was this: if Enlightenment progress is solving the problem of evil, all Jesus needs to have done is to point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the emancipation of man from a state of self-imposed tutelage... of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“You may not have spent years meditating or received instruction from all the best teachers in all the various philosophical schools. That… — Lodro Rinzler Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
![“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of reason, is called prejudice; and the greatest prejudice of all is to represent nature as not subject to the rules that the understanding places at its basis by means of its…” quote by Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a3/immanuel-kant-532_enlightenment_to-think-for-oneself-is-the-maxim-of-a-r_1784587.jpg)
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