Quotes About Enlightenment

Blind, materialistic leaders guide the blind masses, and everyone is falling into the ditch of repeated birth and death.

Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

The secret of our being still asks to be unfolded. Only now we understand that worrying at it and ragging it is no use. The first step is to stop these oscillations of consciousness that are keeping me awake. Only, before you command the oscillations to stop, before you check out, you must maneuver yourself into a position in which metaphysical aid can approach.

The people who come to evening classes are only ostensibly after culture. Their great need, their hunger, is for good sense, clarity, truth – even an atom of it. People are dying – it is no metaphor – for lack of something real to carry home when day is done.

I read the best of literature, science and philosophy

Cher Mozart, Un professeur de complexite, voila ce que tu es.Avec precision, tu pointes les extremes qui nous composent, les tensions qui nous constituent. Aux esprits confus, tout est confus. Aux esprits clairs, tout est clair: meme ce qui leur echappe. Des lors, plus une intelligence est lumineuse, plus elle peut apprehender le mystere.

He'd have improved if you'd not given Him a mere glimmer of the light in heaven; He calls it Reason, and it has only increased His power to be beastlier than a beast.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us and then we'll need no other light.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made him to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the rightness has to shine What Muhammad also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor! Und bin so klug als wie zuvor;

Thus, book after book, the book of all books would that it was given to us so that we might try to enter there as into a second world, where we lose ourselves, enlighten ourselves, perfect ourselves.

T?tad man bija visai maz l?dz?ts ar to, ka atbr?vojos no saviem maldiem, - sapr?ts un skaidr? spriešanas sp?ja man nodar?ja v?l liel?ku ?aunumu.

Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir bewusst.

He whose vision cannot cover History's three thousand years, Must in outer darkness hover, Live within the day's frontiers.

Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams , November 13 1816 }

These things shall be—a loftier raceThan e'er the world hath known shall riseWith flame of freedom in their souls,And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.