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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.

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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
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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Goodness Possible Willing World
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
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

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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