Kant

Kant

Kant On Enlightenment and Nonage: An age prior to personal enlightenment

Columbia

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage

Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) Have the courage to use your own understanding.

It is so comfortable to be a minor

how pernicious it is to implant prejudices

..the public use of one's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment to mankind.

human nature whose proper destiny lies precisely ... progress

constitution which is not publicly questioned by anyone would be, as it were, to annihilate a period of time in the progress of man's improvement

Salvation is none of his business

Frederick of Prussia

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But only the man who is himself enlightened, who is not afraid of shadows, and who commands at the same time a well disciplined and numerous army as guarantor of public peace--only he can say what [the sovereign of] a free state cannot dare to say: "Argue as much as you like, and about what you like, but obey!" Thus we observe here as elsewhere in human affairs, in which almost everything is paradoxical, a surprising and unexpected course of events: a large degree of civic freedom appears to be of advantage to the intellectual freedom of the people, yet at the same time it establishes insurmountable barriers

Caesar non est supra grammaticos: Caesar is not above grammarians