Buddhism Quote by Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.”

— Ilchi Lee

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“2. Enlightenment implies an Insight into the Nature of Self. We”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Enlightenment, broadly construed, is to be undeluded about how the world is and how best to live.”

— Thomas W. Clark

“However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of…

— Kenneth Minogue

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity...

— Sakyong Mipham

“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times and cultures…

— Brad S. Gregory

“It wasn't enlightenment to live like you had no history and no consequences. The world wasn't just made out of instants -- it was…

— Riley Redgate

“Morality is separate from the ideals of men. It exists whole somewhere, to be approached—but never truly understood—by the mortal. The Philosophy of Ideals.”

— Brandon Sanderson