2,968 Quotes About Enlightenment

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.