#lighten

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. ↗

— Al Gore

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

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Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you. ↗

— Solange nicole

#enlightenment #equality #life-lessons #solange #education

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. ↗

— Beth Henley

#enlightening #kind #playwright

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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