Enlightenment is a sublime word, if one goes back to its meaning;

Enlightenment is a sublime word, if one goes back to its meaning; it means illumination of the spirit through truth, liberation from the shadows of error, or uncertainty, of doubt. Enlightenment is, in its deepest meaning, the transfiguration (Verkl – Paul Leopold Haffner

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Enlightenment, The
category

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. – Nikos Kazantzakis

This notion is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?. – Michel de Montaigne

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is. – Wayne Dyer

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again – Simone Weil

Random Quotes

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. – Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917

Category:
Equality

I am aware that a philosophers ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. – Nicolaus Copernicus

Category:
Truth

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. – Orison Swett Marden

Category:
best

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. – Les Brown

Category:
Goals