Quotes about Enlightenment

The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. In their widest ramifications 'the Middle Ages' thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. BRIAN STOCK, Listening for the text

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.

Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us. Maybe we can't handle the truth. In

The value of education is among the greatest of all human values.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.