Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
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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.
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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.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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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.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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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.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
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I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
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My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
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If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
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In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
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Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
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I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
