Quotes About Illumination

The true purpose of mankind is to bear the torch of truth aloft and shine it, even into the darkest places.

Loken took a step forward. 'Commander,' he said, 'I will own up to ignorance and embrace illumination, but I will not be laughed at.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Het is niet alsof we een kijkje nemen in die duistere krochten, het licht aandoen en een stel kakkerlakken aantreffen. Vuurvliegjes houden ook van duisternis. Er is ook schoonheid op die plekken. Maar we moeten ernaar kijken om die te kunnen zien.

Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;

There is no darkness but is brightened; there is no distance but is illuminated.

Despite himself, Beauvoir laughed. "There is strong shadow where there is much light.

A lie was a light. One that grew into a floodlight, that eventually illuminated the person among them with the biggest secret. The most to hide.

Tea lights were lit and placed on the table and around the garden, so that it looked like large fireflies had settled in for the evening.

Ironic, really, that from a blind they should suddenly see so clearly.

That night, after Vespers, this nameless monk sat by precious candle-light, staring at the psalms written so carefully on the vellum. Then he dipped his quill in ink and drew the very first musical note.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The clouds to the south had cleared, and the sun appeared, gradually pushing shadow down the hills, spreading light like syrup over the brown slopes and the forests down to the lake.

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through...

Confusion is that wonderful state right before clarity.

the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, once completed, became for the church the "only external means of divine supernatural illumination.

Al abrir los ojos, un rayo de sol dorado penetraba por la ventana e iluminaba, como si fuera oro, todo cuanto la rodeaba.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

The snaplight hit the beast square in the face. And did nothing