Quotes About Enlightenment

Fundamentally, the question was whether national decisions of significant economic import, affecting thousands of citizens, would be governed by Enlightenment science or by huckster fantasy. The outcome was immediately clear to anyone reading the newspapers: fantasy won.

For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse.

François-Marie Arouet Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, 2 vols. (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1966), I

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

But Jung also pointed out: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

It was as if he had stood me squarely before the world, removed the blindfold, and ordered me to open my eyes.

Wake up! Keep waking up! Wake up more and more often!

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Pecuniary embarrassment, he thought, was the cause of all evil to the blacks, "for poverty kept them ignorant and their lack of enlightenment kept them degraded.

It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the highest purposes of humankind. If there is meaning in life, it lies here.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")

Critical theory upends the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual. These liberal values are an ideology by which dominant groups subjugate other groups. All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maintain those in power.

He closed his third eye and opened the other two, the old two, the blind two.

Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

A tudatlanság minden baj legkiválóbb ellenszere (…), a legtökéletesebb bolondok gy?zik le a legkönnyebben a problémákat, ?ket ugyanis nem gyötrik gondok, nem kínozza félelem és szorongás, mint a felvilágosult embereket.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.