Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it...
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Immanuel Kant
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on...
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Ayn Rand
Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. <span...
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Suzy Kassem
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one...
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Suzy Kassem
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By B. C. Forbes
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.
