Quotes About Illumination

A veces de noche, enciendo la luz para no ver mi propia oscuridad.

I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

the teacher transfers the spirit of the right art from heart to heart, that it may be illumined.

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star!

I cannot help recording that this illumination of my thought is for me only the extension of the Other, the only Light. I have never known such happiness. I have been playing Brahms for a long time, piano sonatas that were new to me. They will always remind me of this unforgettable time. How can I keep this feeling of being entered, of being absolutely safe—and also of being enfolded?

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

A room is not a room without natural light.

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures.

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

The shining light of Logres shone as high and clear as ever, but as a candle flares before it gutters out.

After all, no matter how elegant the script or how beautiful the illuminations and bindings, the pages had been made from the hides of dead beasts.

He quoted Saint Jerome's praise that learned men were like stars in the heavens, and the prophet Daniel's that they shine like the sun. "All evil is born from ignorance," he wrote. "Yet writers have illuminated the world, chasing away the darkness, especially those authors from ancient times."35

For twelve hundred years Mullahs have been writing proofs of the existence of God. Believe me, I've taught theology for a long time - none of them is real proof. The only real proof can come through illumination.

há tristezas de dois tipos. Primeiro, são as tristezas diurnas, quando o mundo está iluminado pelo sol. Tristezas para as quais há razões.

When the moon is up, the night has its magic.

So Mr Brain opened his mouth to let a moonbeam into his head.

The way to extinguish a shadow is to increase the light.