Enlightenment Quotes

"If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth" "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action " "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" "Atop the highest mountains of truth, we are all snow blind. " "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise." "I say there is no darkness but ignorance." "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason" "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance" "Set your life upon this one goal: to bear witness to the majesty of the Beloved and to become one with His light" "The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk." "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." "A truly wise man is always joyful." "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance" "The more you know, the more you see." "I now bear away with me, O my God, all that I have received, the wind and the wisdom of all human spirits that have been, and now are " "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck" "Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." "The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt "