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Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.
In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)