Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Enlightenment is terror; when you light up the world, you make its filth clearer.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

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.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

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.

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

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.

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

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

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

Truths kindle light for truths.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.