Bits Quote by Christine Jennings

The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.

— Ben Domenech

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it…

— Simon Schama

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to…

— Tom Robbins

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's…

— Adyashanti

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. Its seeing…

— Unkown

“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists and historians…

— John Hirst

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

— Robert Bork

There is a constant revolution happening, people look at things done in the past and try to better them.

— KK

Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.

— Ravi Shankar

The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that…

— Frederick Lenz

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was…

— Ben Domenech

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

— Alan Watts