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Quotes About Illumination

Madness, and then illumination.
~ Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
~ Jacques Maritain
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.
~ Charles Darwin
When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
~ Charles Hard Townes
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.
~ William Shakespeare
Full spectrum lights should be used in all daytime offices for good health.
~ Steven Magee
Light brings us the news of the Universe.
~ William Henry Bragg
The time is my vehicle & the light is my fuel.
~ Soudip Sinha Roy
Don't let anyone fool you. The stars are always shining. And you don't just see them in the dark. The sun is a star, and it provides light for all of us.
~ Halle Teart
The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.
~ Debasish Mridha
The more we are illuminated, the more we want others to experience that also. We can't help but be generous and giving, because self and other is one, and the nature of self and the nature of other is one; it is true nature giving itself to itself. (p. 9)
~ A.H. Almaas
Like the hills under dusk you fall away from the light: you deepen: the green light darkens and you are nearly lost: only so much light as stars keep manifests your face: I feel the total night in myself rave for the light along your lips.
~ A.R. Ammons
The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.
~ Adam Gopnik
The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels the moon is following that car, even in the other direction, right? Everyone in that entire hemisphere can see the moon and think it is there for them, is following where they go.
~ Aimee Bender
The moon slipped down into the frame of the window and reached an arm of pure light through the glass.
~ Aimee Bender
Light enters through the window and opacity is vanished!" exclaimed the alien.
~ Alan Dean Foster
She lifter the shade and bathed the room in silver. Moonlight glinted off the glass and metal instruments on her desk and vanished into the eaves. Moonlight skimmed over her floorboards and made Nero's eyes a shimmering green. It wasn't enough to work by. It wasn't enough to read by. But who needed to read? She knew them by heart.
~ Diana Peterfreund
candle. They'd eaten dinner on the rear deck
~ Diane Chamberlain
I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.
~ Diane Keaton
When God opens our eyes for his word, we see into a world of miracles.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
His joy swept out and away from him, as rays shooting through every part of the world.
~ Don Bradley
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
~ Don Henley
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
~ M. C. Escher