Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Noam Chomsky

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Marianne Williamson

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

Mark Victor Hansen

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

R. D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

Nancy Pearcey

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

A teacher gives knowledge to his student and enlightens him.

Michael Polanyi

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Rajneesh

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Rajneesh

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

Rajneesh

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

Nikola Tesla

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

Stephen Levine

Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

Rajneesh

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

Rajneesh

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

Satish Kumar

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Salman Rushdie

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Keith Haring

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Ralph Fiennes

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Terence McKenna

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Scott Lynch

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

Shunryu Suzuki

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

Shunryu Suzuki

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Shunryu Suzuki

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

Shunryu Suzuki

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

Marcus Aurelius

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

Natalie Goldberg

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Sigmund Freud

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

Tom Stoppard

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Ruth Benedict

Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.