"Enlightenment is man's release from his self incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from … - Immanuel Kant

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is
made nothing entirely straight can be carved .

It is different with the transcendental division of a phenomenon. How far that may extend is not a matter of experience, but a principle of reason, which never allows us to consider the empirical regressus in the decomposition of extended bodies, according to the nature of these phenomena, as at any time absolutely completed.