An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' - Deepstash
IMMANUEL KANT

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.

Sapere Aude!! (Dare to know) “Have courage to use your own understanding!”--that is the motto of enlightenment.

IMMANUEL KANT

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

CURATOR'S NOTE

Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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