Quotes About Enlightenment

Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas.

To philosophise with open eyes is to philosophise in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

El verdadero fin de las operaciones de la alquimia, que acaso son residuos de una ciencia muy antigua perteneciente a una civilización desaparecida, es la transformación del propio alquimista, su ascenso a un estado de conciencia superior.

A love for good books is one of the best safeguards a man can have.

In the Piscean Age we looked "out there" for our savior: "Save me. Save me. Please take care of me." Now we are moving into the Aquarian Age, and we are learning to go within to find our savior. We

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge." are always open.

There is no darkness but is brightened; there is no distance but is illuminated.

four sentences that lead to wisdom.

Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.

Non pas, tu t'en doutes, celle d'un retour en arrière aux Lumières, à la raison, à la république et à l'humanisme, ce qui n'aurait, je t'ai dit pourquoi, aucun sens, mais une tentative de les penser à nouveaux frais, non pas « comme avant », mais au contraire après et à la lumière de la déconstruction qui a eu lieu.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Truths kindle light for truths.

A weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in 17th century England. —RICHARD SAUL WURMAN

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.