Quotes and Sayings About Illumination
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.
-- Ambrose -
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
-- Anais Nin -
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
-- Andrew Lang -
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
-- Anne Lamott -
There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.
-- Benjamin Creme -
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
-- Bill Bryson -
Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations. Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it
-- Caroline Myss -
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A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveSource : "Society for Pure English, Tract 05: The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems" by Society for Pure English, June 5, 2004.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
-- Charles Darwin -
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art. Their compositions contain specific messages brought through from high realms for the definite purpose of bettering world conditions and bestowing upon mankind greater illumination.
-- Corinne Heline -
Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.
-- David A. Bednar -
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Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.
-- David Fontana -
It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.
-- David HeymanSource : "'Harry Potter' Finale: Rupert Grint, David Heyman, Phelps Twins Give First Look at CineEurope" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 30, 2011.
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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
-- David Ogilvy -
We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination
-- David OgilvySource : "The Unpublished David Ogilvy".
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If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
-- Elif Safak -
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.
-- F. E. Marsh -
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We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.
-- George H. W. Bush -
If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.
-- Greg Mankiw -
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
-- Harold Brodkey -
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
-- Henri Poincare -
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
-- Idries Shah -
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
-- James Mark BaldwinSource : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”