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Enlightenment Quotes (page 5)

Ram Dass quote: "If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family."
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family. Ram Dass
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain... Thomas Jefferson
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain - has an Element of Blank. It cannot recollect. When it begun - or if there werea time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain. Its Past - enlightened to perceive. New Periods - of Pain. Emily Dickinson
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our... Marcus Tullius Cicero
Michel Foucault quote: "The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also..."
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. Michel Foucault
Flann O'Brien quote: "Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the..."
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. Flann O'Brien
It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha) Herman Hesse
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. Patti Smith
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about. Malcolm X
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff? By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I... Arthur Conan Doyle
I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. Emile Zola
Ann Druyan quote: "No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be..."
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. Ann Druyan
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me. Sue Monk Kidd
And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and such lovers of the human race who, throughout their lives, set themselves the very task of conducting themselves as properly and sensibly as possible, as it were to enlighten their neighbors for the very purpose of proving to them that it is really possible to live decently and sensibly on this earth. And so? It is well known that, sooner or later, towards the ends... Fyodor Dostoevsky

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