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“It was that of the mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“In like manner not everyone who is enlightened by an angel, knows that he is enlightened by him.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” Plato, The Republic
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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