#enlightenment

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common sense #community #enlightenment #left

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#barely #because #cannot #enlightenment #history

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ↗

— Johann Most

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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

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