Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
IMMANUEL KANTSince the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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