Enlightened Quotes - Page 10

• I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Parent, Hope For The Future

  Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Order, People, Laughing

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• The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Reflection, People

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 2 (1776 - 1788)

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• There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Practice, Atheism, Example

  John Stuart Mill (1962). “Utilitarianism, Liberty, and Representative Government”

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• There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.

  Lysander Spooner

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Character, Idiot

  "Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

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• The president sets the tone. He creates the atmosphere, and that can be enlightened, progressive, or it can be intimidating, depending on what the president's agenda is. I think the other dimension of this that I worry about is impacts overseas with friends and allies, many of whom are very, very concerned about America's position in the world and whether or not it's going to continue its leadership, which has been the prevalent condition since World War II.

  James R. Clapper

  War, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.politico.com

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• To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mean, Enlightenment, Speak

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• To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mean, Ends, Function

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• Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

  Bram Stoker

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.315, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pride, Intelligent, Peaceful

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Ignorance, Inexperience, Overcoming

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• To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Reality, Goal

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

  Junius

  Wisdom, Heart, Understanding

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• They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Children, Stupid

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• It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern, enlightened Europe and it would be a crime to point out that Jewish settlers in Israel who believe they have a God given right to take the land are, frankly, mad. All the above assertions will, no doubt, offend someone or other.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Believe, Israel, Europe

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• I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

  Manmohan Singh

  Independent, India, Today

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• It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is not a nice prospect. And there is only one way of avoiding that this happens: to establish a global democracy. And it is not too late to strive for such a democracy, of a straightforward populist nature, where people on the globe elect a world parliament, which in turn elects a world government.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Nice, Government, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Decision, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fundamental concept of optimum nutrition heralds an entire new paradigm in medicine, no less important than that of Louis Pasteur's discovery that organisms can cause disease. Fundamental to this is the discovery that large amounts of essential nutrients, above that available from a 'well balanced diet' can help restore health in people with diseases. It is my firm belief that, in an enlightened society, pharmaceutical drugs would play a very small part in medicine.

  Patrick Holford

  People, Drug, Important

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Light, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Attitude, Character

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• When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fate, People, Taoism

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