Kant What Is Enlightenment Quotes

#1. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. ... 1 Nothing 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. - IMMANUEL KANT, What Is Enlightenment?

Jon Meacham

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

Immanuel Kant

#3. My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

Donald McKay

#4. Jesus, my yard was starting to feel like a Village People reunion. So far I had the cop, the biker, and the cowboy.

Diane Henders

#5. If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

Geraldine Brooks

#6. What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?

Immanuel Kant

#7. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

Immanuel Kant

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

Immanuel Kant

#9. There is nothing as delicate, as stunning, and as vulnerable as the heart.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

#10. 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.

Immanuel Kant

#11. Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)

Immanuel Kant

#12. For the words of a vow are sacred not only among men and the angels, but among the demons as well.

Howard Schwartz

#13. Ah yes! I'm feeling a powerful energy through my bullshit chokra. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#14. Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

Blanka Vlasic

#15. 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.

Immanuel Kant

#16. The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that it gives us a better view of knowledge, and the mind, and so on.

Hilary Kornblith

#17. The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

David McCullough

#18. I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

Sasha Alexander

#19. Whenever I get to talk to young girls like me I always say, 'The only difference between you and I is that I know that I'm special and you just don't know that you are yet.'

Keke Palmer

#20. You can't lose with the Stuff I use!

Reverend Ike