War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
IMMANUEL KANTEnlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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To be is to do.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Art is purposiveness without 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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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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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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