Enlightenment is a sublime word, if one goes back to its meaning; it means illumination of the spirit through truth, liberation from the shadows of error, or uncertainty, of doubt. Enlightenment is, in its deepest meaning, the transfiguration (Verkl

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

It does not require a decision to go to hell.

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I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendell Phillips

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Renee Olstead

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

John F. Kennedy

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.

Osbert Sitwell, Wisdom

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

Debra Winger

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

E. M. Cioran

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Max Bill

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle