Quote of Immanuel Kant - Immaturity is the incapacity to use...

Biography - Immanuel Kant:

German philosopher.
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Source: Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

Quote

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

Translation

(French, German)

L'immaturité est l'incapacité d'utiliser sa propre intelligence sans le concours d'autrui.”
Emmanuel Kant - Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ?

Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen.”
Immanuel Kant - Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?

Quotes about intelligence:

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell

To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.”
Emanuel Swedenborg

All about intelligence...

Quotes about others:

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

others

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.”
Jules Renard

All about others...

Immanuel Kant also said...

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant

Have courage to use your own reason!”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

courage

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

The harmony that holds between truths is like the harmony in a painting.”
Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”
Immanuel Kant

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