The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
IMMANUEL KANTThe cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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