“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason — that is the motto of enlightenment.”
— Immanuel Kant, Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
What this quote means
Kant’s definition of enlightenment as humanity’s release from self-imposed immaturity. "Sapere aude" — dare to know — makes the use of one’s own understanding, without another’s guidance, the core intellectual virtue.
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