I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me. — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
“A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear.” — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.” — Iva Kenaz Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A man met the Buddha after the Buddha became enlightened. The man was awed by his remarkable radiance. "What are you?" the… — Linda Leaming Copy Share Image
To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
“Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence. — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel… — M.P. Sharma Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is a non-theistic belief suggesting a path of spiritual development can offer the individual insight into the true nature of reality.” — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“No matter how much grandeur a person has, if he does not like bondage even for a single moment, then he has… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
