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“Dare to think!”
― What is Enlightenment?
― What is Enlightenment?
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
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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 another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
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