Sentence examples for knowledge and enlightenment from inspiring English sources

We had faith in human exaltation through knowledge and enlightenment.

After all, philosophy is regarded as a flight from our animal natures and into the realm of intellectual activity, knowledge and enlightenment.

"I believe strongly in the power of knowledge and enlightenment and in what books can do, especially for someone who is down and who feels a connection to a story".

But I suspect the University, as a bellwether institution in the ceaseless and unending quest to disseminate human knowledge and enlightenment, does well to stay clear of such quagmires.

This year, according to Mamadou Boly, a retired primary school inspector and president of Andal et Pindal (whose name means "knowledge and enlightenment" in Fulfulde), the shepherds' school achieved an 85% success rate, and nearly two-thirds of students went directly into CM2, the final year of primary school.

But neither Duchamp nor Napoleon could have anticipated the degree to which future art, in its museums and gallery spaces, would not only step down from its fusty pedestal as a static source of knowledge and enlightenment, but also merge into immersive, night-hours' mass entertainment.

For decades, our stores have been destinations within our communities – places where people have sought knowledge, entertainment, and enlightenment and connected with others who share their passion.

As an academic institution, the Mosse-Lectures follow the tradition of democratic liberalism in the spirit of Mosse's newspaper Berliner Tageblatt with a strong commitment to cultural exchange, transfer of knowledge, and political enlightenment.

These are diseases that gravitate to the poor because of lack of knowledge, information, education and enlightenment.

For many of us, the human desire for knowledge, stimulation, understanding, pleasure and enlightenment is fed by our engagement with the arts, literature, history or philosophy.

His books include Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013), Liberal Beginnings: A Republic for the Moderns (2008; co-authored with Andreas Kalyvas), When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (2005), and Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (2003).