David Hockney Quotes

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

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

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.