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Biography - Immanuel Kant:

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

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.


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Note




Source: Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

Universität Bielefeld - Berlinische Monatsschrift, 1784 (de) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'immaturité est l'incapacité d'utiliser sa propre intelligence sans le concours d'autrui.

German
Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen.




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Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





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





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





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





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





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.











Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.











Quotes

Immanuel Kant also said...


Have courage to use your own reason!





Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.





It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





That is sublime in comparison with which everything else is small.












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