Quotes About Illumination

Everything has its shadow if you bring it in the light.

There are lights in the streets and shadows in the house.

To be without knowledge is to be without light.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Still, a great deal of light falls on everything

All aglow is the work.

estrategia del Deus absconditus: proponer, no imponer; iluminar, no cegar; dejar ver, sí, pero con sombras y enigmas...

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

Surely some revelation is at hand.

we know from the beginning that the darkness is beyond us there is no explaining the dark it is only the light that we keep feeling a need to account for

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the 'darkness' of sensory knowledge.

To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul is that which is to see.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.

The dark makes the light stuff brighter.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire the lamps - giving back 'the light of the other days'.