#illumination

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#knowledge #uselessness #love

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

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

— Romano Prodi

#illumination #like #more #statistics #support

I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#creature #fragrance #human #humanity #illumination

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#co-operation #compassion #illumination #inspiring-quotes #kindness

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ↗

— Lord Acton

#history #illumination #memory #soul

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

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #man #rather #statistics #support

...I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind... ↗