#illuminate

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#future #illuminates #longer #past #spirit

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#christ #divine #forms #great #great art

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#illuminates #important #obscures #personification #political

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #carries #country #first #furthest

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#educate #illuminate #inspire #motivate #power

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#corporate #domain #environmentalism #exclusive #govern

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. ↗

— August Sander

#illuminated #photography #shadows

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #humor #illuminate #inform #show

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#contemplate #illuminate #inspirational #saint #shine