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Enlightenment Quotes

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

Ignorance Free Enlightenment Always

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

Day World Golf Enlightenment Play

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

Religion Enlightenment Oppression Two

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Enlightenment Century Spite Secular

Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

Religion Fight People Enlightenment

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

Matthew Stewart

History Enlightenment Values Look

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Michael Polanyi

Faith Process Enlightenment Stability

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Death Enlightenment Long You Never

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Socialism Enlightenment Liberal

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

Path Enlightenment You Body Manifest

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

Emmanuel Macron

Waiting World Enlightenment Spirit

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Community Start Enlightenment Want

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Wendell Willkie

War Process Enlightenment America

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

Water Moment People Enlightenment

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

Truth Freedom Enlightenment Hood Aim

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

Enlightenment You Become Master Own

For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.

Enlightenment Person Three Ordinary

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

Book Reading Judge Enlightenment

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Enlightenment Islam Through Gone

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

Age Path Society Enlightenment Take

Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and observe your thoughts - oh, and by the way, what you perceive as you' doesn't actually exist.' I loved the minimalist approach of it.

Power Thoughts Loved Enlightenment

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

Emmanuel Macron

Waiting World Enlightenment Spirit

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Future Practice Enlightenment Want

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Wendell Willkie

Life Happiness History Enlightenment

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