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Letter "T" » the Enlightenment
«Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.»
«In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.»
Author: St. John of the Cross
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«Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.»
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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Education
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«Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength»
Author: Lao Tzu
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Philosopher)
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«In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?»
«Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
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Playwright)
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«There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.»
«The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.»
«There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.»