Quotes by Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

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Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understan — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocat — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them fr — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kin — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best — Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?