We found 17 examples of how to use enlightenment in an English sentence.
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| 1. | As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment. | |
| 2. | Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-imposed immaturity. | |
| 3. | Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. | |
| 4. | Vesak is a Buddhist holiday which celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha. | |
| 5. | Sephardic pronunciation was chosen as the preferred pronunciation of the members of the enlightenment movement. | |
| 6. | Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. | |
| 7. | Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. | |
| 8. | As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease. | |
| 9. | The most significant achievement of the Hungarian Enlightenment was the language reform. | |
| 10. | Time and again, human beings have believed that they finally arrived at a period of enlightenment only to repeat, then, cycles of conflict and suffering. Perhaps that's our fate. | |
| 11. | As a student of history, I also know the debt which civilization owes to Islam. It was Islam, which — at Al Azhar University and other places — carried the light of knowledge through so many centuries, and thus paved the way for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. | |
| 12. | Sami found a path to enlightenment. | |
| 13. | The Buddha attained enlightenment under a Bodhi tree. | |
| 14. | Enlightenment philosophies applied new ways of understanding. | |
| 15. | Yoga gurus promise to show the path to enlightenment. | |
| 16. | "Cassandra, Bodhi Day is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha experienced enlightenment." "The eighth of December, right, Sheela?" "Correct." | |
| 17. | During the Age of Enlightenment, the Church was heavily dominant. |