Immanuel Kant Quotes About Enlightenment

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  • Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

  • Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

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    "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.
  • Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

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  • Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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    Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press
  • Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

  • Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

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  • Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.

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  • Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

    "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Lewis White Beck, 1784.
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