#illuminates

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#believe #done #environmentalism #i #i believe

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ↗

— James Thurber

#glow #illuminates #kinds #light #obscures

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#always #because #daylight #fear #illuminates

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me. ↗

— Gerard Butler

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#illuminates #important #obscures #personification #political

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. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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