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My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak. -- Varg Vikernes
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment... -- Peter Prange
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. -- Morris Berman
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power. -- Felix Frankfurter
Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you try to surpass me]. -- Toba Beta
If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. -- David Hockney
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. -- Elon Musk
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. -- Umberto Eco
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. -- Bill Richardson
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. -- Pankaj Mishra
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. -- E. O. Wilson
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. -- Peter Diamandis
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. -- Noam Chomsky
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. -- John Boehner
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. -- Michael Polanyi
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. -- M. H. Abrams
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. -- Richard Dawkins
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. -- Paddy Chayefsky
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. -- Eckhart Tolle
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought. -- Salman Rushdie
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. -- Joko Beck
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. -- James Buchan
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment. -- Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment is lightening up. -- Mike Myers
After enlightenment, the laundry. -- Gautama Buddha
Enlightenment is awakened awareness. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Enlightenment is a destructive process... -- Adyashanti
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Not creating delusions is enlightenment. -- Bodhidharma
Every man must seek self-enlightenment -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Enlightenment is a group activity. -- Charles Eisenstein
Today's enlightenment is tomorrows mistake -- Shinzen Young
Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. -- Wayne Dyer
Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience. -- Erik Naggum
Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'. -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion. -- Milton H. Erickson
Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Enlightenment is higher states of awareness. -- Bryan Kest
Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever. -- Gautama Buddha
Enlightenment is not a complete remedy. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. -- John Olsen
enlightenment should be a human right. -- B. W. Powe
Practice and enlightenment are not two. -- Dogen
Why don't more women attain enlightenment? -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
poems are small moments of enlightenment -- Natalie Goldberg
Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment. -- Kodo Sawaki
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. -- Dogen
Enlightenment is the experience of pure light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enlightenment is the food that eats you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Reading is an enlightenment of the soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. -- R. D. Laing
Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment. -- Gary Hopkins
Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You can't make a date with enlightenment. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality. -- Pema Chodron
Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. -- Anthony de Mello
Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness -- Adyashanti
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. -- Laozi
Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment. -- Mason Cooley
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. -- William Blake
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute. -- Nancy Pearcey
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. -- Immanuel Kant
Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance. -- Swami Nithyananda
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. -- Laozi
I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within. -- Michael Sharp.
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. -- Pearl Cleage
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. -- Jimmy Wales
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. -- Nhat Hanh
Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment. -- Pema Chodron
Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, -- Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being. -- Frederick Lenz
[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. -- Ernest Gellner
The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less. -- Mason Cooley
Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment -- GZA
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment. -- Jodi Livon
Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. -- William Gibson
Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair. -- Marianne Williamson
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. -- Alan Cohen
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment. -- Marianne Williamson
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. -- Michel Foucault
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. -- Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark. -- David Levithan
Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life. -- Wayne Dyer
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. -- Idries Shah
Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope. -- Rajneesh
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. -- Nikola Tesla
Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. -- Rajneesh
Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment -- Eckhart Tolle
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process. -- Ken Danby
If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh? -- Andrea Gibson
Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. -- Ravi Shankar
Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others. -- David Deida
There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. -- D.T. Suzuki
As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality. -- Brad Warner
God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment. -- Garchen Rinpoche
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. -- Nhat Hanh
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Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. -- Thaddeus Golas
Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. -- Gautama Buddha
Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears. -- Sharon Gannon
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment. -- Ron Brackin
Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment. -- Dharma Mittra

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