Quotes by Enlightenment In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk enlightenmentrealplayer We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical. Murray Rothbard enlightenmentgroupsopposites The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice. N. T. Wright enlightenmenthistoricalbird Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute. Nancy Pearcey thinkerenlightenmentsubstitutes poems are small moments of enlightenment Natalie Goldberg small-momentsenlightenmentmoments In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. Neal Shusterman enlightenmentbrainworld Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. Neil deGrasse Tyson enlightenmentluxuryneeds I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment. Neil deGrasse Tyson enlightenmentpeoplethinking 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 enlightenmentageschool 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 enlightenmentmiraclealive Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. Nhat Hanh enlightenmenthealingwater There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. Nhat Hanh enlightenmentperspectivemindfulness The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. Nhat Hanh enlightenmentenergyjoy We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. Nhat Hanh enlightenmentearthneeds You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment. Nhat Hanh walking-meditationenlightenmentpractice We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet. Nhat Hanh enlightenmentmindfulnesspractice Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. Nhat Hanh enlightenment Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. Nikola Tesla enlightenmentuniversalnatural Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles. Noam Chomsky enlightenmentprinciplesviews With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Noam Chomsky enlightenmentdevelopmentorder«2021222324252627282930»
