Quotes About Illumination

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

When God comes into your life, He lights a candle in your soul.

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

We're stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we're all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

Oh my, " she said as though to herself. "The rumors are true, you have been kept in the dark.

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

You will find the lies in the light and truth in the dark

In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing

I have found increasingly more extensive and illuminating ways to use it to facilitate self-understanding, melt repressive barriers, liberate self-expression, activate self-healing—and continually test and retest my own hypotheses.

Ever afterwards so touched, and so transfigured.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

Are you a dim bulb or high-wattage?

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

There is light somewhere.

warm light alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.

if there is light it will find you. — Charles Bukowski, from "the harder you try," The People Look Like Flowers . (Ecco; First Edition edition(March 27, 2007)

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Everyone walks carrying a hoop of his own horizons, large or small (since scales differ) and more or less illuminated by his own understanding. What resemblance or relationship his world has to the real one, none can know. But the one sure-thing bet is this: The world I really believe in does not, it cannot, it never will coincide with reality.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.