Sentence examples for without enlightenment from inspiring English sources

But sincerity without enlightenment can be as harmful to the achievement of good as intelligence without wisdom when that intelligence is possessed by political leaders playing with hydrogen bombs.

Holiness doesn't happen without enlightenment, a belief in possibility, faith or ritualized practice to make room for it in the same way we make room for going to movies, buying groceries and cleaning our toilets.

But does this mean that without Enlightenment-style authority, stupidity itself will come to an end?

As Plantinga develops it in his paper (1983), beliefs are warranted without Enlightenment-approved evidence provided they are (a) grounded, and (b) defended against known objections.

The concern and the mystery surrounding Anthony's ailing right knee continued Wednesday night, without any enlightenment from Anthony, who declined to speak with reporters before sitting out the Knicks' 87-77 victoverover the Detroit Pistons.

But what I do want to say is that we have learned a clear lesson: there is no future without books; no enlightenment or tolerance or co-existence, without books; no creativity or innovation or invention without books; no economic prosperity or pioneering or leadership".

He goes from schoolboy cockiness to a Zen-like enlightenment without many stops in between.

The only consequence is to place a strain on the performers without offering any enlightenment.

Dostoevsky rejected the idea that people act in accordance to reason or their best interests and asserted the need for them to be able to behave as they choose, without fitting into Enlightenment ideas of "progress".

Mones sketches her quaintly xenophobic protagonist with transformation in mind; in a story where the emotional journey mimics that of a Hollywood date movie, there can be no enlightenment without sweet cluelessness.

There is no alternative to communist rule, which is why I think it will be able to get away without applying the enlightenment values Will Hutton believes it needs to espouse.