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Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. we must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. it's up to you, the way you think.
Enlightenment says the world is nothing nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion and nothing is real.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
The connections i draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the enlightenment and during the framing of the american constitution.
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
Clearly, enlightenment thinkers were seeking a god substitute.
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