Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTEnlightenment 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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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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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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