"In an instant illumination can be achieved, it is as easy as turning on a light, the problem is finding the switch in the dark."

Ahiqar See all quotes by Ahiqar →

React to this quote

More by Ahiqar

See all

“Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.”

“Open your door to a good day and prepare yourself for a bad one.”

“If you are looking for a friend who has no faults, you will have no friends.”

“A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.”

“Better a patient man than a warrior, one who controls his temper than one who takes a city.”

“Love rules without rules.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation, of the kind of misery and inequality that destroys social values. If you really look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ - who I think was t…"

— Hugo Chávez

Politics1976–2013

#society

"Sarah Vowell on NPR's Talk of the Nation"

— Sarah Vowell

Literature1969

#society

"Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread". He did not come me…"

— J. Sidlow Baxter

Literature1903–1999

#life

"...Humiliated beyond sufferance, Uriel went home, wrote a fierce denunciation of his persecutors, and shot himself. This was 1640. At that time Baruch Spinoza, "the greatest Jew of modern times," and …"

— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy1632–1677

#time