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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

Immanuel Kant

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World

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