Quotes by Enlightenment Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. Noam Chomsky enlightenmentsocialismlibertarian By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed! Osamu Tezuka hahahaenlightenmentwake-up Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined. Noam Chomsky enlightenmentfundamentalsroots You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. Paddy Chayefsky enlightenmenthalfage One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can. Oprah Winfrey enlightenmentvoicepeople Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. Patrick Rothfuss enlightenmentignoranceknowing The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed. Paul Brunton gapsenlightenmenttwo Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. Paul Kurtz enlightenmentagendasatheism The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie. Paul Tillich atmosphereenlightenmentbridges Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. Pearl Cleage discomfortenlightenmentbrilliant Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. Pema Chodron new-opportunityenlightenmentopportunity If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time. Pema Chodron enlightenmentmomentslive-in-the-moment Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment. Pema Chodron path-to-enlightenmentenlightenmentpath Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality. Pema Chodron spiritualityenlightenmentreality The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them. Pema Chodron enlightenmentuseway The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. Peter Matthiessen meditation-practiceenlightenmentevents The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment. Peter Prange siegeenlightenmentphilosophy Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it. Philip Kapleau enlightenmentanxietydesire The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now. Philip Toshio Sudo enlightenmenttimewatches Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. R. D. Laing breakthroughenlightenmentpsychological«2122232425262728293031»
