Enlightenment Quotes

"Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them" "It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing." "Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness visible." "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. " "The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation" "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. " "The death of dogma is the birth of morality" "If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved" "Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the" "Philosophy is the light of the soul and should be pursued by all rational beings" "Knowledge comes with death's release." "When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite" "It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free" "Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny" "To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom."