#enlightened

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#characters #circumstances #drama #engage #enlightened

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. ↗

— Charles Eames

#address #class #does #enlightened #greatest

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#economic #enlightened #everyone #exercise #new

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda ↗

— Paramahamsa Nithyananda

#enlightenment #guru #inspirational #meditation #spirituality

Things are not always what they may seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. ↗

— Phaedrus

#intelligence

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ↗