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The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. -- Ambrose Bierce
Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease -- Octavia Butler
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened. -- Enza Vita
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. -- Paul Goodman
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. -- Pat Paulsen
My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. -- Thomas Steinbeck
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. -- Thomas Steinbeck
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. -- Eugen Drewermann
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. -- Bill Maher
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened. -- Wendy Kaminer
Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. -- John Adams
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. -- Matthew Arnold
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. -- Frederick Lenz
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. -- Frederick Lenz
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam. -- Thomas Steinbeck
There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself. -- Enza Vita
How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh. -- Deacon Jones
When one achieves massive success, unenlightened minds say, "It's all about luck." But if you were to ask me, I would say, "It is the mighty reward of faith, confidence, courage, patience, relentlessness and resiliency. -- Edmond Mbiaka

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