More Enlightenment Quotes
“I confess that a Being who exists somewhere and yet
corresponds to no point in space, a Being who, lacking extension, yet occupies
space; who is present in his entirety in every part of space, who is
essentially different from matter and yet is one with matter, who follows its
motion, and moves it, without himself being in motion… a Being about whom I can
form no idea; a Being so contradictory in nature, is a hypothesis difficult to
accept.”
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29
October 1783)
“Nothing is required for enlightenment except freedom and
the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use
reason publicly in all matters.”
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February
1804)
1 comment:
I love the idea that people were once given time and attention because of the strength and beauty of their ideas, and not because of gunfire or spectacle or titillation.
How sad that enlightened thinking can so easily be stomped under the feet of propaganda and emotion-based "reasoning."
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