Enlightenment Quotes

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

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

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

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

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

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

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

I think at some point at a moment of enlightenment in the future, the federal government and perhaps a future Supreme Court is going to say it's not a bad thing for children to hear prayer in school.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.