Laird Barron Quotes

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

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • View

• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Sometimes
  • Growth
  • Personal

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Literature
  • Enlightenment

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Rap

• Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Small
  • Enlightenment

• 'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

  

  Annette Curtis Klause
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Enlightenment

• And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Long
  • Death
  • Enlightenment

• Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Enlightenment

• Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Enlightenment

• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Science
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Why
  • Soul

• There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the 'Waking the Fallen' record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Time
  • Song
  • Free

• Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Reality
  • Culture
  • King

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

  

  Laird Barron
  • Enlightenment