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“As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.”

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Book:The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

Source: The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

“The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.”

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Author:Mario Bunge

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.”

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Author:Will Durant

“The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”

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Author:M. H. Abrams

“To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something”

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Author:Laozi

“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”

Author:Laozi

“It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer