#illuminati

There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#conspiracy #freemasonry #illuminati #anarchism

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ↗

— Anne Frank

#darkness #illumination #dark

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#capable #comparable #discovery #give #happiness

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#illumination #morality #perform #will

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#energy #forward #hope #illuminating #into

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #lamp #man #posts #rather

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#because #bleeding #ever #find #form

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#illumination #like #more #statistics #support

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#both #entertaining #find #i #illuminating