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“Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.”

Men Self States Use Understanding Knowledge Enlightenment Dare Liberation Minorities Motto

Author:Immanuel Kant

“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”

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Book:The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare to test, by knowledge led; And that which she was wont to organize We crystallize, instead.”

Knows Men Science Lying Knowledge Mystery Hard Work Mass Tests Dare Conviction Organize

Book:Faust

Source: Faust

“Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

Knowledge Wise Dare Being Wise

Book:Q. Horati Flacci Sermones et epistulae

Source: Q. Horati Flacci Sermones et epistulae

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.”

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Book:Our Eternity

Source: Our Eternity