Quotes About Enlightenment

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

It is strange to think you don't know you are carrying a giant weight, and you didn't know how heavy it was, until it's gone.

What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you are looking for because you already are everything you are looking for?

there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.

if you're making sense, you've just unmade confusion.

He breaks off, and I gasp as, abruptly, what we're seeing makes perfect sense.

I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Every enlightened path can turn on itself and become a new tyranny

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.

Manquer de lumière est autre chose que d'éteindre celle que l'on possède.

Ttheology is not practised apart from faith, prayer and adoration ... The whole subject matter of Christology is most intimately related to the secret of revelation ... the enlightenment of the eyes.

Theology is not practised apart from faith, prayer and adoration ... The whole subject matter of Christology is most intimately related to the secret of revelation ... the enlightenment of the eyes.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

In the twinkling of an eye a veil is lifted; and you see with other eyes and hear with other ears and are given another understanding.