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“A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”

Stills Evil Progress Morality Improvement Enlightened Fables

Author:Madame de Stael

“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.”

Suffering Individual Numbers Principles Progress Tests Impact Excuse Indifference Enlightened

Book:In Place of Fear

Source: In Place of Fear

“The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.”

Mind Age Spiritual Humanity Culture Issues Progress Economic Modern West Enlightened Materialistic Pragmatism Future Progress

Book:Ideal And Progress

Source: Ideal And Progress

“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.”

Made Reason Would Be Born Race Progress Gratitude Deserve Tiny Endless Enlightened Links Lap Modernity Relays Relay Races

Book:Origins: A Memoir

Source: Origins: A Memoir

“Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!”

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Book:The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851

Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851

“The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.”

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Author:Theodor Adorno

“I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.”

People Way Two Faces Three Progress Becoming Enlightened Combat Homophobia Three Ways

Author:Leslie Jordan

“There might be greater technology but really, we as human beings, we're the same as we ever were. There's always a ruling class that shits on a working class. There's always war over money. So we as humans aren't enlightened as a whole. So I think that you as an individual can progress under certain circumstances, so if you choose to be something and to try and learn and to try and progress then eventually it will happen but that is also who you are. You can make conscious decisions to try and do something positive or constructive but you are what you are.”

Thinking Trying War Individual Decision Technology Progress Circumstances Conscious Who You Are Enlightened You Choose Working Class

Author:David W. Marsden