Sapere aude
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Sapere aude is a Latin phrase meaning "Dare to know" or "Dare to be wise", or sometimes translated as "Have courage to use your own reason". Most famously, it is found in Immanuel Kant's essay "What Is Enlightenment?". The original use seems to be in Epistle II of Horace's Epistularum liber primus [link], line 40: Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").
It is a frequently used motto. Some users of the motto are listed below.
Globally
Australia
Belgium
- UGent University
Canada
- Alexander von Humboldt, Deutsche Schule Montreal
- Richmond Hill High School, Richmond Hill, Ontario
- University of New Brunswick
Finland
- Classical Upper Level Comprehensive School of Tampere
- Finnish sceptic association
India
- Government Arts College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
- Woodside School in Tamil Nadu
Netherlands
New Zealand
- University of Otago (and formerly the University of New Zealand)
Russia
Sweden
United Kingdom
- Bishop Hugh Oldham, founder of Manchester Grammar School
- Crompton House Church of England School, which is situated in Shaw and Crompton
- Manchester Grammar School
- Torquay Boys' Grammar School (as Aude Sapere)
- Town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
United States of America
- Abingdon High School in Virginia
- Federal Way Public Academy in Washington
- County College of Morris
- Renaissance Arts Academy, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
- Loyola Marymount University Class 2009 Los Angeles, California
See also
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