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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

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
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 cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
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
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk

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