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Enlightenment Quotes by Steven Pinker
- For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we…
- The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and…
- I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende
- Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner
- Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and… — Mel Brooks
- Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like… — Dan Brown
- There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To… — James Buchan
- There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the… — Tony Campolo