Lajos Kossuth Quotes

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

Light is the symbol of truth.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

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.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

You don’t go from tyranny to democracy overnight.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

All our efforts must tend towards light.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

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

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.