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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.

Immanuel Kant

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Since 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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Break End Human Race
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 greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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

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