Surrounded by loving friends and the gentlest influences, as Helen had always been, she has, from the earliest stage of her intellectual enlightenment, willingly done right.

In a secular context, higher consciousness is usually associated with exceptional control over one's mind and will, intellectual and moral enlightenment, and profound personal growth.

His desire to promote the happier life for all men was perhaps even stronger than his craving for pure intellectual enlightenment.

Costain's character also comes to argue for emancipation of the Saxon villeins (serfs), linking political with intellectual enlightenment under the fictional Bacon's influence.

This is the point when historians agree civilization emerged from the Dark Ages and began a new period of intellectual enlightenment.

It is a conversation between the part of us that always reads for pure pleasure and the part that learned to read for intellectual enlightenment.

Freemasons say they are nothing more than a brotherhood of like-minded individuals who meet regularly for spiritual and intellectual enlightenment.

Cultural experimentation was justified as being directed toward spiritual or intellectual enlightenment.

The ill-defined architecture of the final two movements was only a slight distraction from the intellectual enlightenment and sheer joy Mr. Schiff brought to this concert.

The AASO takes pride in its efforts to enrich the Albanian community through intellectual enlightenment and social involvement.