Age Of Enlightenment Quotes:

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

topic: Birthday, Justice, Political, Age Of Enlightenment

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

- Paddy Chayefsky

source: Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

topic: Age, Enlightenment, World, Age Of Enlightenment

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

- John Locke

source: John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

topic: Peace, War, Independent, Individual Rights, Liberty And Equality

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.

- Allan McLeod Cormack

topic: Kings, Reading, Men, Solomon, Disenchanted

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Courage, Lying, Men, Lack Of Understanding, Emergence

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

- Carl Jung

topic: War, Men, Epidemics, War Of The Worlds, Landslides

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

- Clive Barker

source: Clive Barker (2001). “The Inhuman Condition”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

topic: Age, Desire, Enlightenment, Age Of Enlightenment

Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book One, Chapter V, 1840.

topic: Religious, Believe, Men, Age Of Enlightenment

Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.

- Zeena Schreck

topic: Spiritual, Animal, Ego, Brainwashed, Age Of Enlightenment

Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

- Kenneth Rexroth

topic: Order, Law, Secret, Occult, Age Of Enlightenment

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

- Martin Filler

topic: Eye, Age, Enlightenment, Age Of Enlightenment