Buddhism Quote by Robert Bork

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

— Umberto Eco

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

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been…

— Christine Jennings

“The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's…

— James K. Morrow

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“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

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human…

— Frederick Lenz

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to…

— John Desmond Bernal

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

— Richard Dawkins

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

— Adyashanti

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

— Paddy Ashdown