Quotes About Enlightenment

A good night in is a series of documentaries.

Your mind is nirvana.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

He still wasn't sure exactly when it happened...It wasn't as if a light suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter almost imperceptibly before you realized it was morning. page 147

Foucault himself argued that liberal democracy was the worst form of tyranny. The Enlightenment that Westerners imagined had freed them had in fact enslaved them in insidious ways that Westerners were too stupid to see – with the exception of French philosophers.

Knowledge is more virtue than power.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization. As

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Free is a man who has no desires.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

The Dalai Lama is rumored to have said that being able to have sex without any attachment would take the level of attainment of being able to eat either chocolate cake or dog shit without any preference between the two.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. In fact, on the very same assumptions that led classical liberalism to oppose the intervention of the state in social life, capitalist social relations are also intolerable.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

To challenge the right of investors to determine who lives, who dies, and how they live and die—that would be a significant move toward Enlightenment ideals (actually the classical liberal ideal). That would be revolutionary.

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos.

You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers. You have to awaken to become.

Åžtiu. Da, aÅŸa este. Ea este lumina. Înainte, poÅ£i s? umbli prin întuneric sau s? te descurci în lumina slab?. Nici m?car nu ÅŸtii c?-i slab?, pentru c? aÅŸa a fost mereu. Dar apoi, ea e lumina. Totul se schimb?. - Dac? lumina se stinge sau, mai r?u, dac? eÅŸti destul de prost încât s? o stingi singur, este cu mult mai întuneric decât era înainte.

you can't fix stupid.' It may be true. But ignorance can be educated.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us. Maybe we can't handle the truth. In

The Buddha stated that "happiness is the greatest wealth.