Quotes About Enlightenment

Free your mind and your ass will followThe kingdom of heaven is within

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

The Enlightenment sought to rid the world of myths, but the nation could not justify itself without them.

In the end, the problem of Europe is the same problem that haunted its greatest moment, the Enlightenment. It is the Faustian spirit, the desire to possess everything even at the cost of their souls.

Eating Orro's food was as close as you could get to nirvana without enlightenment.

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-incurred immaturity.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is the emancipation of man from a state of self-imposed tutelage... of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance. Such a state of tutelage I call 'self-imposed' if it is due, not to lack of intelligence, but to lack of courage or determination to use one's own intelligence without the help of a leader. Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle-cry of the Enlightenment.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Have courage to use your own reason that's the motto of enlightenment .

Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare to Know'(sapere aude) Have the courage to use your own understanding;this is the motto of the Enlightenment.

Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment.

Faulheit und Feigheit sind die Ursachen, warum ein so großer Teil der Menschen, nachdem sie die Natur längst von fremder Leitung frei gesprochen, dennoch gerne zeitlebens unmündig bleiben; und warum es anderen so leicht wird, sich zu deren Vormündern aufzuwerfen.

the cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness

Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use with and publicly in all matters.

Immanuel Kant

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit. Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen.

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