Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

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

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)

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.

Terence McKenna

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

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.

James Madison

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

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.

Joseph Conrad

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

Tom Stoppard

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

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

Pearl Cleage

Discomfort is always a necessary part of 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.

Pema Chodron

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

Pema Chodron

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sigmund Freud

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

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.