Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism,… — Jonathan Sacks
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. — Idries Shah
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation,… — Eckhart Tolle
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here… — Morihei Ueshiba
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep… — Morihei Ueshiba
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. — Rufus Wainwright
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. — Marianne Williamson
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without… — Wendell Willkie
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. — E. O. Wilson
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. — Tiger Woods
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in… — Martin Filler
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying… — Robert Anton Wilson
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. — Marisha Pessl
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to… — Dalai Lama
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you. — John Burdett
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. — Neale Donald Walsch
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. — Brad Warner
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. — Nhat Hanh

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