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Enlightenment Quotes

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Best Book Think Enlightenment Rise

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Think Enlightenment You Will Own

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

Peter Diamandis

Age Innovation Coffee Enlightenment

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

Richard Dawkins

Faith Enlightenment Nice Run Risk

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Light Shadow Enlightenment Understand

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Think Enlightenment Dark Us Hole

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

World Rest Speak Hell Enlightenment

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Growth Enlightenment Sometimes Either

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Paddy Chayefsky

Age World Enlightenment You Profit

My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

Music Enlightenment Entertainment

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

World Accomplishment Enlightenment

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

Knowledge People World Enlightenment

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

Believe Enlightenment Flaws Achieve

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Richard Dawkins

Truth Science Enlightenment America

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Great Ideas Society Enlightenment Us

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

History Revolution Enlightenment

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.

Freedom Me Enlightenment You Values

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Culture Mind Rich Enlightenment Even

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

Revolution Political Enlightenment

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Enlightenment Little Must Come Would

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Enlightenment Kind Guy Much Very

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

Work Enlightenment You Boring Own

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

Today Great Past Enlightenment Now

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Enlightenment Results Evolution Know

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