Enlightenment Quotes

880 quotes by 346 authors

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find… — Jamie Campbell Bower
The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created… — Marianne Williamson
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing… — Masaaki Hatsumi
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the… — Ken Danby
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. TheÂ… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
I think we should be very clear on thisâ€¦ this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenmentâ€¦ It was the idea that people… — Wesley Clark
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has… — Ambrose Bierce
Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment.… — Laozi
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values… — Unknown Author
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world… — Satish Kumar
Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment. — Marianne Williamson
In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this… — Dogen
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the… — Cal Thomas
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.… — Gautama Buddha
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and… — John Welwood
The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes… — Anita Moorjani
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman

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