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Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
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 death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand

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