Ambiguous Quote by James Q. Wilson

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

— Rhys Ifans

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men…

— Bernard Beckett

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

— William Kingdon Clifford

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

— Tom Robbins

“Enlightenment, broadly construed, is to be undeluded about how the world is and how best to live.”

— Thomas W. Clark

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based on fear…

— Marianne Williamson

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

— Bill Bailey

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead…

— Bernie Glassman

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and…

— J. G. Ballard

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson