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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. -- Paddy Chayefsky
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being. -- Martin Filler
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take. -- Rhys Ifans
The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything. -- Clive Barker
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers. -- Zeena Schreck
Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul. -- Carl Jung
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. -- Umberto Eco
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. -- Peter Diamandis
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. -- Virchand Gandhi
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. -- Ernest Holmes
Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value. -- Heather Brooke
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous. -- Charles Hazlewood
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite. -- Tom Robbins
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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