Victor Hugo Quotes

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

Education brightens a darkened world.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

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.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.