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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. -- Adam Weishaupt
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. -- Adam Weishaupt
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. -- Lord Acton
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. -- Vin Scully
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. -- Roland Allen
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
I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. -- Rebecca De Mornay
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. -- Adam Weishaupt
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -- Anais Nin
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
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. -- David Ogilvy
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. -- John Adams
Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue. -- Symeon the New Theologian
Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is. -- Raphael Zernoff
The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams. -- Samael Aun Weor
Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams. -- Samael Aun Weor
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. -- Gail Sheehy
In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing -- Joni Mitchell
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express. -- Frederick Lenz
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express. -- Frederick Lenz
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. -- Ambrose
Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing that crown that shines like the sun on your head and getting other minds to synergize with yours. -- Suzy Kassem
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature. -- Sheng-yen
This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. -- Jimmy Carter
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. -- Romano Prodi
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work. -- Henri Poincare
There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. -- Benjamin Creme
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! -- Bryant H. McGill
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. -- August Wilson
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. -- Bill Bryson
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles. -- David Suchet
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. -- Milan Kundera
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. -- Mary Antin
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. -- Joshua Foer
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. -- Jacob Bronowski
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. -- Harold Brodkey
It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination. -- David Heyman
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' -- Kitty Kelley
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving. -- John Daido Loori
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history. -- Eugene Kennedy
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. -- Annie Besant
Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too. -- Kevin A. Ford
When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution. -- Jacqueline Bisset
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word. -- Monica Johnson
Madness, and then illumination. -- Orson Scott Card
The sun cares nothing for illumination. -- Mason Cooley
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. -- Werner Herzog
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You are the instrument of your own illumination. -- Vivian Gornick
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. -- Eugene Delacroix
Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life. -- Brooks Atkinson
I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind... -- John J. Geddes
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. -- Kate DiCamillo
A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all. -- John James Cowperthwaite
Jesus himself refers to himself as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination. -- Kimberly Sabatini
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. -- John Clare
the rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ... -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. -- Swami Vivekananda
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. -- Swami Prabhavananda
God himself is referring to Jesus as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. -- Idries Shah
I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally!- 150 - -- Munindra Misra
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. -- Werner Herzog
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination -- Robert Green Ingersoll
One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word. -- F. E. Marsh
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them -- George Andrews
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. -- Andrew Lang
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. -- Ellen Glasgow
Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it. -- Frederick Lenz
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love. -- Bryant McGill
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love. -- Bryant McGill
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. -- James Mark Baldwin
There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination. -- Robert Anton Wilson
We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of menâ??s minds which follows from the advance of science. -- Charles Darwin
We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination -- David Ogilvy
The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination. -- Bryant McGill
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. -- Idries Shah
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -- Plotinus
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. -- Elif Safak
The streetlight forge speech bubbles of illumination in the air. A faint glow from the moon casts eerie shadows behind the dark clouds. -- Cheree Smith
Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing. -- David A. Bednar
Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times. -- Molly Friedenfeld
Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth. -- Sunday Adelaja
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise. -- Margaret Sanger
Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth -- Sunday Adelaja
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination. -- John Updike
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination. -- Alfred E. Perlman
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination. -- Paul Fussell
Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director. -- Colin Farrell
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. -- Rumi
If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art. -- Steve Coogan
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most. -- Harry S. Truman
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. -- May Sarton
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity. -- David Fontana
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give. -- George H. W. Bush
I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you. -- Wayne Dyer
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won. -- Joseph Campbell
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night. -- Galileo Galilei

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