Secular Enlightenment Quotes

#1. Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Michael Shermer

#2. The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

M.H. Abrams

#3. Strength in peace. Strength in love. Always.

Janice Anderson

#4. Always take the scenic route.

Janice Anderson

#5. Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

Emma Goldman

#7. If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#8. Those who know don't tell.
Those who tell don't know.
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Lao-Tzu

#9. There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds keening above her and rain gentle all around, dying of breathing

Tana French

#10. You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

Fisher Stevens

#11. People still need to know that ye would fix everything if ye could.

Kevin Hearne

#12. Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

Paul Kurtz

#13. They maintain this guilty, defiant refusal to engage: I know you're out there; I know it's awful and I'm safe inside, but I suffered too, so let me just read my Kindle without bloody guilt-tripping me, OK?

Sophie Kinsella

#14. God sometimes you just don't come through,
Do you need a woman to look after you?

Tori Amos

#15. I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

Elaine Pagels