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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Immanuel Kant

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
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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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Children Patience Time Truth
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas

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