Ability Quote by Bertrand Russell

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

— Byron Katie

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to…

— Tom Robbins

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

— Kim Hee-jin

“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it…

— Arnold Bennett

“The path to transcendence is unrecognized by many because it appears ordinary.”

— Bryant McGill

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

— Gertrude Stein

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal…

— Horace Mann

“Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren,…

— Plutarch

“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser…

— William Hurrell Mallock

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have…

— Alfred North Whitehead