The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Not when truth is dirty but when it is shallow does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you since that is already enlightened and has no need to seek. No it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.