#enlighten

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

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I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true. ↗

— Helen Suzman

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The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard. ↗

— Julius Streicher

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