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1 " 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 without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment. "
― Immanuel Kant , An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
2 " If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. "
― Leo Tolstoy
3 " All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. "
― Blaise Pascal , Pensées
