Quotes About Enlightenment

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

Mientras estemos pensando en posibilidades horrendas, no estaremos a la altura necesaria para encontrarnos con realidades más elevadas, más hermosas y benignas; realidades que siempre han estado allí, esperando que elevemos nuestra mirada y dejemos atrás lo negativo, para revelarse ante nuestros ojos. ?

Parte de la evolución es aprender a superar el apego, porque el espíritu busca Libertad.

Quien experimenta amor experimenta a Dios. Cuando el intelecto esta iluminado por el amor se capta el sentido profundo de las cosas, se recibe el conocimiento de Dios y se es sabio, pero cuando no hay amor, ese conocimiento se esfuma, no queda archivado en la memoria porque no proviene del intelecto. El conocimiento de Dios solo al amor se revela, y solo ante la presencia del amor se revive. Por eso, quienes casi no se acercan al amor cometen tantos errores, pobres…

La mujeres son como la ayahuasca.

Anti-Semitism was thus one of the keys of a 'reactionary modernism' based on a synthesis of modern rationality and technology with the conservative values of the anti-Enlightenment

the Enlightenment, no one was prepared to see totalitarianism as a product of Western civilization and a paroxysmic expression of its own contradictions. Only a few were able to grasp Hannah Arendt's most fertile intuitions. The genetic relationship that linked Nazism to imperialism and nineteenth-century colonialism remains still today a historical workshop largely unexplored.

the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) appeared half a century later than in Berlin, Vienna or Paris, and took on a national form: secularization and modernization gave birth to a Jewish nation whose pillars were the Yiddish language and culture.

Only the educated are free.

That better-educated people were no more immune to National Socialism than the less educated calls into question the widely held belief that tolerance and enlightenment are more likely to be found among people who have a higher education. It is the content of socialization that counts, not the degree of sophistication.

I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the creation of the special sort of criminal that he typified...all I do know is that while might is right, while chaos and anarchy masquerade as order and enlightenment, those conditions will obtain.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Then I remembered a joke told by a Tibetan friend: "What is the difference between a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist?" The answer: "The non-Buddhist thinks there is one.

I asked Mincha if he would like to be reincarnated as the beautiful scarlet minivet. Mincha paused for a moment and then pointed out how many insects a minivet consumes in its lifetime. "Killing other creatures causes pain in the world. So from a Buddhist perspective, we must say that the minivet is not to be envied." Besides, he related, there are 500 rebirths separating birds and humans, so a bird rebirth would be a big setback from enlightenment. Back

Understanding Christ means taking Christ seriously. Understanding this claim means taking seriously his absolute claim on our commitment. And it is now of importance for us to clarify the seriousness of this matter and to extricate Christ from the secularization process in which he has been incorporated since the Enlightenment.

America in the twenty-first century has generally returned to the worldview of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment rationalists, who were so appalled at the religious wars of the previous century that they recoiled from all religion, unable to fathom a world in which religion and freedom could be mutually supporting.

the initiate becomes an "ennoos," one who possesses nous, or whom the nous possesses, a "pneumaHkos." 71

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

The original Society of the Wise, which was your actual official name for the Folly, had been proudly part of the Enlightenment. God, if he existed, was the ultimate master craftsman who had set the world in motion, with fixed immutable laws, and then left it to get on with things. They saw angels and devils as abstract concepts and held that anything wandering around with a halo, wings, or a pitchfork was either an uppity fae, a con man, or a mountebank.

proudly part of the Enlightenment. God, if he existed, was the ultimate master craftsman who had set the world in motion, with fixed immutable laws, and then left it to get on with things. They saw angels and devils as abstract concepts and held that anything wandering around with a halo, wings, or a pitchfork was either an uppity fae, a con man, or a mountebank.