Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satish Kumar

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Salman Rushdie

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Morihei Ueshiba

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Nhat Hanh

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Nancy Pearcey

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Mark Victor Hansen

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

R. D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

William Blake

He who would see the Divinity must see him in his Children.

Woodrow Wilson

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

William Wordsworth

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

Rudolf Steiner

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.

Wilfrid Laurier

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Washington Irving

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without...

Washington Irving

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man

Jorge Luis Borges

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.