Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Tom Stoppard

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

Sigmund Freud

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

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.

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Eve Ensler

You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

Flann O'Brien

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Nancy Pearcey

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Immanuel Kant

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

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.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

James Madison

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Michael Polanyi

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

Joseph Conrad

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Malcolm Forbes

Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.

Mark Victor Hansen

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

R. D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

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.

Terence McKenna

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

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.

Rajneesh

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