Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment
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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
— Immanuel Kant on Revolution
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Revolution" (K)
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