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

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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. Pankaj Mishra

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Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam. Pim Fortuyn

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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment. T. J. Perkins

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Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good. Ben Domenech

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. Bodhidharma

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I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me. Brigitte Macron

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I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous. Charles Hazlewood

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. Christopher Dawson

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The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen. David Brin

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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. David Hockney

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Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records. Dianne Reeves

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere. Emmanuel Macron

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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places. Emmanuel Macron

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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created. Eric Kandel

God People Thought Living Universe Rules Out Rational Since Scientist Were Mathematical Mathematician Whereby Created Figure Function Ever Enlightenment

Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration. George Takei

Television Gene Potential Inspiration Had Felt Being Even Wasted Enlightenment

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. Ho Chi Minh

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I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices. Howard Fast

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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential. James D. Watson

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The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War. Jill Lepore

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