Quotes About Enlightenment

We don't punish criminals in our enlightened age, we cure 'em; and the cure is worse than punishment.

Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

We are blind: we cannot see God with our senses, and our deductions from what we know or are thinking about the word of God itself - how little power they have to bring us to God! We are blind, and our eyes need the touch of our Lord's hand to enable us at times to even see dimly.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

A Socrates in every classroom.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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.