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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. -- Tom G. Palmer
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. -- Rene Magritte
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. -- A. Scott Berg
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -- James Thurber
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. -- Louis Pasteur
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League. -- John Thorn
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. -- Ernest Dimnet
There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience. -- Warren Littlefield
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. -- George Jean Nathan
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth. -- Joy Harjo
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. -- Franz Liszt
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. -- Pope Francis
I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together. -- Barry Commoner
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. -- Barry Commoner
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other. -- Richard Flanagan
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me. -- Gerard Butler
It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art. -- Richard Flanagan
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things. -- Thomas S. Monson
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. -- Louis Pasteur
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. -- Martin McDonagh
What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian. -- James Fenton
Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it. -- J. Michael Straczynski
A ray of light illuminates any darkness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying -- Robert Towne
Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The only church that illuminates is a burning church. -- Buenaventura Durruti
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth. -- Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. -- Anthony Powell
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. -- Paul Virilio
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being. -- Adyashanti
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. -- Glen Cook
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. -- Leonardo da Vinci
All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters. -- bell hooks
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Words of mankind limited in meaning to describe the enchantment that illuminates from aura of a dancer. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future. -- Runoko Rashidi
I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider. -- Samoa Joe
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. -- Jethro Tull
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft -- Nido R Qubein
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light. -- Subhan Zein
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results. -- Voltaire
Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet. -- Chris Alexander
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison. -- Joseph Prince
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held. -- Matthew Arnold
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul. -- Daria Halprin
DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors. -- Bryan Sykes
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely. -- Albert Einstein
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us. -- Billy Graham
We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others -- Pope Francis
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. -- Frank Herbert
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. -- Leo Tolstoy
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it. -- Ibn Ata Allah
Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book. -- Gaylene Preston
Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature. -- T.C. Boyle
In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object. -- Lynn Cullen
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories. -- Richard Lederer
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure. -- Agnes Repplier
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word. -- Thomas Kinkade
The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism -- Samael Aun Weor
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind. -- Oswald Mosley
When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition. -- Jonathan Trigell
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You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's happening right here. -- Eckhart Tolle

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