Enlightenment Philosophy Quotes

#1. Today's China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed by the enlightenment philosophy espoused by the Founding Fathers.

Patrick Mendis

#2. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Bad philosophy before the Enlightenment was typically of the because-I-say-so variety. When the Enlightenment liberated philosophy and science, they both began to make progress, and increasingly there was good philosophy. But, paradoxically, bad philosophy became worse.

David Deutsch

#4. Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.

A. Lee Martinez

#6. Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana

Alejandro C. Estrada

#8. I will fill my life with so much of positivity, happiness and brilliance that God will one day say with utmost pride,

"This is the most amazing Kaleidoscope to view".

Harshada Pathare

#9. The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

#10. Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

Iain Pears

#11. The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.

Nikki Rowe

#12. Life is a series of awakenings.

Swami Mukerji

#13. Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#14. We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever ... and all the time it is carrying us about ... It is the human nervous system itself.

Robert Anton Wilson

#15. Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#16. Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Ryokan

#17. Reading is a great treasure of enlightenment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Plato

#19. Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

Susan Neiman

#20. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.

John N. Gray

#21. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

J.M. Coetzee

#22. There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

Frederick Lenz

#23. The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.

Patrick Mendis

#24. God's love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#25. Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

Adam Nevill

#26. The Encyclopedia
the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment ...

Peter Prange

#27. To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#28. Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment.

Charleston Parker

#29. I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

Camille Paglia

#30. Have we," asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great 'unknown philosopher,' "have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men?" Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of "the murmur of the gods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#31. We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

Thaddeus Golas

#32. Everyone in this world is Abhimanyu, the difference being that most of us are trapped in a labyrinth of our own creation. It takes a lifetime for people to realise that the way out lies in their own hands. All it requires is a little introspection.

Anurag Shourie

#33. Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?

Nikki Rowe

#34. He who wishes to know, must seek to understand.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#37. True enlightenment is when you know that you're nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz