Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for… — Emma Goldman
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm… — J D Salinger
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. — Chogyam Trungpa
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. — Pearl Cleage
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
Enlightenment is manâ€™s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if… — Immanuel Kant
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. — Frank Herbert
There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter… — Deepak Chopra
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. — Eckhart Tolle
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and… — Marisha Pessl
In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. — Neal Shusterman
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put… — Dan Brown
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. — Immanuel Kant
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. — Rajneesh
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her,… — John Green
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. — Ann Druyan
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. — Carlos Santana

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