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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
John Boehner
Revolution
Our
Born
Fires
Freedoms
Ideals
Were
Historic
Enlightenment
I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.
Joshua Cohen
God
Technology
Power
Think
Everything
See
Idea
Since
Continuation
Hear
Been
Essentially
Happening
Theological
Enlightenment
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
Kathryn Lasky
Good
Nature
Me
Respect
Important
Think
Tell
Follows
Good Story
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Story
Etc
Thing
Enlightenment
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Kurt Vonnegut
Man
Obligation
Beauty
Think
Speed
Top
Sacred
Writer
He
Takes
Comfort
Becomes
Produce
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
Age
Eye
Cosmic
Hypnotic
Colossal
Most
Rendering
His
Reflected
Being
Theater
Unidentified
Images
Enlightenment
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.
Martin Rees
Science
Physics
Complicated
Made
Atoms
Own
Birds
Waves
Everything
Those
Solved
Seek
Laws
Tropical
Could
Concepts
Quantum
Equations
Quantum Physics
Scientists
However
Forests
Offer
Autonomous
Breaking
Even
Each
Enlightenment
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
Matthew Stewart
History
Values
Ancient
Some
Fad
Wrong
Look
Call
Century
Rooted
Deeply
Enlightenment
Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.
Mayte Garcia
Life
Celebrate
Live Life
Live
Birthdays
Prince
Educate
Want
Next
Next Level
Elevate
Level
Enlightenment
For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.
Michael Dirda
Three
Restricted
Voltaire
French
Well-Read
Person
Ordinary
Even
Largely
Enlightenment
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Michael Polanyi
Faith
Philosophic
Shaken
Scientific
Articles
Stability
Process
Explicitly
Held
Beliefs
Enlightenment
Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'
Ming-Na Wen
Success
Mom
You
Face
Stars
Baby
Sun
Says
About
Takes
Named
Read
Because
Said
Were
Going
Your
Star
Now
Why
Credit
Enlightenment
Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Joseph
Leaders
Like
Lot
Revolutionary
Literature
Warren
Enlightenment
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.
Niall Ferguson
Freedom
Me
You
Wealth
Values
Moral
Both
Individual
Individual Freedom
Smith
Yeah
Committed
Nations
Being
Ask
Then
Sentiments
Means
Theory
Believer
Believing
Right
Adam
Enlightenment
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
Pankaj Mishra
Best
Freedom
Defiance
Values
Criticism
Individual
Individual Freedom
Manifested
Acts
Enlightenment
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Pim Fortuyn
Creative
Gone
Society
Christianity
Constructive
Through
Judaism
Making
Process
Them
Elements
Enlightenment
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
Polly Toynbee
Today
Day
Spiritual
Compassion
Values
Sense
Temporal
Rise
Lords
Up
Common
Common Sense
Against
Regiment
Proclaim
Enlightenment
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
Rhys Ifans
Age
Path
Society
Take
Which
Choice
Enlightenment
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.
Richard Dreyfuss
Faith
You
Constitution
Rights
Secular
Values
Way
System
All Religions
Religions
Protect
Got
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Enlightenment
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
Robert Darnton
Myself
World
Problems
Thinking
Fathers
Philosophers
Back
Books
Find
Often
Experienced
While
Confronting
Founding
Founding Fathers
Present
Enlightenment
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
Rufus Wainwright
Love
You
Experience
Pain
Scale
Something
More
Times
Intense
Happens
Much
Moment
Twenty
Enlightenment
Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.
Sissy Spacek
Work
You
Own
Boring
Smarts
Ultimately
Gets
Your
Enlightenment
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
Steven Pinker
Nature
Constitution
Book
Political
Example
Human Nature
Framing
Draw
Systems
Between
New
For Example
New Book
Were
Debates
American
Political Systems
Human
Connections
Enlightenment
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.
Steven Pinker
Best
Book
Think
Rise
Printing
Sellers
Reforms
May
Literacy
Publication
Humanitarian
Enlightenment
Phenomenon
Coincidence
What fun is life if it's taken so seriously, and what fun is yoga and the search for enlightenment if we are tight, tense, and clenched up from the inside out?
Tara Stiles
Life
Seriously
Out
Inside
Inside-Out
Taken
Tense
Tight
Up
Yoga
Fun
Search
Enlightenment
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
Tariq Ali
Religion
Oppression
Christianity
Intolerance
Immense
System
Attacked
Mainly
Delusions
Institutional
Powers
Ideological
Persecution
Reasons
Enlightenment
Two
Set
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
Tiger Woods
Achieve
Believe
Because
Ultimate
Human
Human Beings
Flaws
Beings
Humans
Enlightenment
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