Quotes About Illumination

The suns and stars of the physical worlds are but pale reflections of the inner lights of the higher realms and of our own soul.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

Back-light is the cinematographer's friend.

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

a cloud of pulsating light, it enveloped

Hic tibi nocturns praestbit creus igns: Subducta est puer namque lucerna tu.

Richard A. LaFleur

Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.

He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Only human beings guide their behaviour by a knowledge of what happened before they were born and a preconception of what may happen after they are dead; thus only humans find their way by a light that illuminates more than the patch of ground they stand on. P. B. and J. S. MEDAWAR, The Life Science (1977)

For beneath that delicate black powder something highly unusual was happening: the book's marbled cover was giving off a faint, but increasingly bright purple glow.

The act of making art exposes a society to itself. Art brings things to light. It illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, See?

Debemos permitir que nos golpee el rayo del dolor. No lo olvides: este dolor es útil, el relámpago ilumina.

Art ... illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, See?

The essential point here is that there are several stages of creative thought: first, a stage of preparation in which the problem is consciously worked over; then a period of incubation without any conscious concentration upon the problem; and then the illumination which is later justified by logic.

It was the brightest entry into darkness.

His smile was slow, and contained such a combination of genuine amusement, self-deprecation, and appreciation for her that for an instant every part of her felt illuminated, warmed, and too exposed.