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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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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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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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
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I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.
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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.
