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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Immanuel Kant

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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