Illuminates Quotes

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Future, Past, Darkness

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan

Art, Darkness, Criticism

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Humanity

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber

Two, Light, Kinds

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Humanity

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Barry Commoner

Powerful, Point, Production

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
Barry Commoner

Done, Together, Problems

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt

Life, Religion, Great

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte

Fear, Miserable, Almost

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
John Thorn

Interest, Fans, Teams

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
Gerard Butler

Beauty, Around, Story

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Ernest Dimnet

History, Past, Far

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Tom G. Palmer

Important, Political, Rather

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