Quotes About Enlightenment

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!