Quotes About Enlightenment

There is no religion higher than the truth.

The rarest thing in the world is, in knowing you know nothing.

Our end is the acquisition of knowledge.

Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self.

Dinle! O iç burkucu bungunluk çöktü. Dinle!-Akl?n ya da gövdenin böylesine eylemlerine saÄŸl?ks?z denebileceÄŸine inanm?yorum.- KonuÅŸuyor o. SoÄŸuk y?ld?zlar?n ötesinden gelen c?l?z bir ses. SaÄŸduyunun sesi. KonuÅŸ bakal?m! Aman,konuÅŸ yine,ayd?nlat beni!Bu sesi hiç duymam??t?m.

Not everybody gets to see a blinding light on the way to Damascus.

The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774 ]

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Light is only possible through dialogue between cultures, not through rejection of one or the other.

As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library. As a college student I was educated in the stacks of the Swarthmore library. And as an adult I use libraries daily in my search for the facts and the enlightenment I use in writing my books. In fact, I like libraries so much that I married a librarian.

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.