Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment. — Marianne Williamson
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist… — Noam Chomsky
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. — Noam Chomsky
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function… — Eric Kandel
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular… — Elaine Pagels
Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between… — Jill Lepore
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. — Peter Diamandis
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little… — Barry Ritholtz
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common… — Polly Toynbee
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they… — Ken Wilber
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc.… — Kathryn Lasky
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. — Socrates
I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those… — Maynard James Keenan
The reward of all action is to be found in enlightenment — Bhagavad Gita
When we give up to openmindedness , we move away from pushing into allowing, from insecure to secure, from seeking approval to seeking enlightenment and… — Senoraroy
The byproduct of doing for others is the path to enlightenment and when viewed in hindsight reveals the meaning of life. — Jordan Blake Michiels
Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. — Unknown Author
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. — Zen Proverb

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