Quotes About Enlightenment

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

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

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

Now I understand," said the last man.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

What a man does not know is greater than he.