Buddhism Quote by Tariq Ali

In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a…

— Salman Rushdie

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

— Allen W. Wood

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new…

— Tony Campolo

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...

— Robert Thurman

“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to bud and…

— Kurt Andersen

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church,…

— Ken Wilber

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

— Allen W. Wood

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

— Nancy Pearcey

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name…

— Riane Eisler

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Richard Dawkins

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