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“Enlightenment is the human being’s emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the ability to make use of one’s intellect without the direction of another. This immaturity is self-incurred when its cause does not lie in a lack of intellect, but rather in a lack of resolve and courage to make use of one’s intellect without the direction of another. Sapere aude!”(Svendsen 190)

“Someone who sees no resemblance between himself and his enemy, who believes that all the evil is in the order and none in himself, is tragically destined to resemble his enemy. But someone who, recognizing evil in himself, discovers that he is like his enemy is truly different. By refusing to see the resemblance, we reinforce it”(Svendsen 132).