Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state

Have courage to use your own reason!" - that is the motto of enlightenment

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself

"Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, only obey!" A republic could not dare s

stability of the community. Men work themselves gradually out of barbarity if only intentional artifices are not made to hold them in it

One might let every citizen, and especially the clergyman, in the role of scholar, make his comments freely and publicly, i.e. through writing, on the erroneous aspects of the present institution.

Since no man has a natural authority over his fellow,