Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on

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

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

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm. – Idries Shah

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

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