Karlheinz Deschner Quotes

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

I like to open people's eyes.

Its so real out here right now, the only reason why you see anything is cuz I got the flash on.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.