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Enlightenment Quotes

"Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness visible."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"

"There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness"

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality"

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it"

"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people"

"The more you know, the more you see."

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck"

"The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"

"The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest."

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