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“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our institutions and laws, our conception of the state, and our political sensitivity all stem from Enlightenment ideas… Remarkably enough, at the center of these ideas stands the age-old concept of natural law. Much if the Enlightenment’s innovation in in political theory may be traced to a change in the interpretation of that concept.”
“The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.”
“The Enlightenment project was doomed from the start, though, for though human beings run out of money, time, resources, energy, and desire, they never run out of the past. A war on the past will necessarily be endless, for no sooner has a man conquered the past than the very act of conquering becomes the past, as well.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.”
“The Enlightenment was a false dawn. We need a second and final Enlightenment, driven by mathematics rather than science, by reason rather than sensory observation. Come join us in Castalia. We shall pull up the drawbridges and create a rational paradise, free of all the errors of the past and the failed values that accompanied them. In Castalia, HyperHumanity will be born. We shall bring the stars to life. In Hoc Signo Vinces.”
Source: Castalia: The Citadel of Reason
“The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.”
“The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.”
“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”
“The enormity of his decision not to race Voldemort to the wand still scared Harry. He could not remember, ever before, choosing not to act. He was full of doubts, doubts that Ron could not help voicing whenever they were together. “What if Dumbledore wanted us to work out the symbol in time to get the wand?” “What if working out what the symbol meant made you ‘worthy’ to get the Hallows?” “Harry, if that really is the Elder Wand, how the hell are we supposed to finish off You-Know-Who?” Harry had no answers: There were moments when he wondered whether it had been outright madness not to try to prevent Voldemort breaking open the tomb. He could not even explain satisfactorily why he had decided against it: Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. The odd thing was that Hermione’s support made him feel just as confused as Ron’s doubts. Now forced to accept that the Elder Wand was real, she maintained that it was an evil object, and that the way Voldemort had taken possession of it was repellent, not to be considered. “You could never have done that, Harry,” she said again and again.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference—by offering
living proof.”
“The enormity of the decision can be measured by its cost. Not just in money, but also in the currencies of time, emotion, mental overhead, danger, physical effort, and opportunities lost. The decision's importance gains with each cost incurred.”
“The enormity of the decision can be measured by its cost. Not just in money, but also in the currencies of time, emotion, mental overhead, risk, and opportunities lost. The decision’s importance gains with each cost incurred.”
“The enormity of the decision to either embrace God wholly and with unbridled abandon, or to reject Him with unrestrained ignorance singularly stands as the one decision that we will make ‘in’ this life that will determine every other decision that we will make ‘for’ this life. Therefore, in making this single decision we will have instantly made a million others.”
“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.”
“The enormity of this started to sink in and I all but collapsed back into my chair. This, here, was life. This was life beginning for us: weddings and families and deciding to step up and be a man for someone. It wasn't about the fucking jobs we had or the random thrills we sought or any of that. Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestone and moments where you tell your two best friends that you're about to have a child.”
Source: Beautiful Player
“The enormity of your problems is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. By over estimating the problem you under estimate yourself.”
Source: The Flight Of Ambition
“The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!”
“The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.”
“The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.”
“The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.”
“The enormous faith of many made for one.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.”
“The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things
“The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.”
Source: The little house treasury
“The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game”
“The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.”
Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)
“The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.”
“The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.”
“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.”
Source: Sexual Politics
“The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.”
“The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.”
Source: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses
“The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.”
“The enrichment center would like to announce a new employee initiative of forced voluntary participation.
If any Aperture Science employee would like to opt out of this new voluntary testing program, please remember; science rhymes with compliance.
Do you know what doesn't rhyme with compliance?
Neurotoxin.”
Source: Portal 2: Lab Rat
“The enrichment center would like to announce a new employee initiative of forced voluntary participation.
If any Aperture Science employee would like to opt out of this new voluntary testing program, please remember; science rhymes with compliance.
Do you know what doesn't rhyme with compliance?
Neurotoxin.
Due to high mortality rates, you may be reluctant to participate in the new initiative.
The enrichtment center assures you this is a strictly selfish impulse on your part, and why can't you love science like [insert co-worker's name here]?”
Source: Portal 2: Lab Rat
“The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.”
“The Enron scandal continues. The U.S. Senate has announced they are going to subpoena Ken Lay and make him testify. Apparently Lay received the subpoena this morning and then, out of habit, immediately shredded it.”
“The enscorcelled city of Arkev understood in its bones the net it was under, yet was afraid to struggle for fear of other nets.”
Source: Volkhavaar
“The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.”
“The enslavement of his weaker brethren – the labour of those who do not enjoy, for the enjoyment of those who do not labour – the degradation of women – the torture of the animal world – these are the steps of the ladder by which man is ascending to his higher civilization.”
“The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.”
“The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.”
Source: Complete Poems
“The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.”
“The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.”
“The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .”
“The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.”
Source: A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century
“The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Source: This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)
“The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.”
“The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.”
Source: The Practice of Management