Quotes About Enlightenment

To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and to rule one's self.

Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed with Kant, and died with Schopenhauer.

Man's duty, says the Avesta, is three-fold: "To make him who is an enemy a friend; to make him who is wicked righteous; and to make him who is ignorant learned."76

Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."2 Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

On his tombstone only three words were necessary:   HERE LIES VOLTAIRE

Desire, not experience, is the essence of life; experience becomes the tool of desire in the enlightenment of mind and the pursuit of ends.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free. Some

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

He gave the human mind a great impetus; he prepared us for freedom.

On his tombstone only three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

Truth will not make us rich but it will make us free.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! He who does not know truth at sight is unworthy of Her Notice.

I say to myself, at last you are in tune with the universe.

The greatest sin is what brings about the heart's death. It dies only by not knowing God. This is what is named "ignorance.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

Given the somewhat dubious and sectarian reputation of madrasas today, it is worth remembering that many of the most brilliant Hindu thinkers, including, for example, the great reformer Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), were the products of madrasa educations.

Read, read, read.

O que a literatura faz é o mesmo que acender um fósforo no campo no meio da noite. Um fósforo não ilumina nada, mas permite ver quanta escuridão existe ao redor.

Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...