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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.

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

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

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.