Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.