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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This...more

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The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do...more

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Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from an...more

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...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freed...more

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An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , p...more

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An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , p...more

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[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of reason, is called prejud...more

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...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves hav...more

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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...more