“When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing” RealityLightSpiritTalkingEnlightenmentIdealsRealmsImaginaryNot TalkingTransientPerceived Reality Author:Frederick Lenz
“The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.” StatesSecretCompassionTeachingEnlightenmentIdealsWelfareFlashyLive For OthersBodhisattva Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.” WorldWritingBookHelpingFoundStudentsCommunicationInternetDisciplineEnlightenmentIdealsCornersFranceRevolutionaryGraduatesAcademicOxfordGraduate Students Author:Robert Darnton
“With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.” OrderSocialDevelopmentMessagesEnlightenmentCapitalismIdealsInjusticeLibertarianSocialismIdeologyRadicalHumanistEmergingSocial OrderEnlightenment And Love Book:The Essential Chomsky Source: The Essential Chomsky
“Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.” EnlightenmentIdealsLibertarianSocialism Book:The Essential Chomsky Source: The Essential Chomsky
“In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer; the market-promoted freedom is designed with the ideal consumer in mind; neither of the two is "more genuine" than the other.” IfsMindMadeTwoEnlightenmentIdealsGenuineProducersConsumers Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.” BornFireRevolutionEnlightenmentIdealsHistoric Author:John Boehner