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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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.
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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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Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.
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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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Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
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I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master...
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What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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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.
