Quotes About Enlightenment

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I

He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being established.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.

Throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

Nov. 2, 1837. Truth strikes us from behind, and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Jamais il n'y aura d'État vraiment libre et éclairé, tant que l'État n'en viendra pas à reconnaître à l'individu un pouvoir supérieur et indépendant d'où découlerait tout le pouvoir et l'autorité d'un gouvernement prêt à traiter l'individu en conséquence.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world.