Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
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.
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.
It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
In the Sixties, there were no guidebooks to Asia, at least none that suited young shoestring travelers. No one on the hippie highway carried a copy of Fodor's 'Islamic Asia.' The route to spiritual enlightenment wasn't revealed in the pages of the latest Baedeker. Intrepids were on a journey of spontaneity and reinvention.
