In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
IMMANUEL KANTThe possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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