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Letter "E" » enlightened
«Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
enlightened, enlightening, possess, seldom, sense of responsibility
«Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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anti-Semitism, anti, dallies, dally, draw near, enlightened, horrible, immune, infection, infections, scientific spirit, Semitism, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, supposedly, The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.»
«His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.»
«For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, / And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, / If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
afresh, crucify, enlightened, fall away, good word, Holy Ghost, partakers, renew, Son of God, tasted, the world to come, Word of God
«He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Self,
Self awareness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
enlightened
«History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably»
«By attaining knowledge the mind becomes enlightened. »
Author: Rig Veda
| Keywords:
enlightened
«How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accursed, article, enlightened, estimation, impurities, impurity, Italy, Romanist, Spain, wedded
«He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child»
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