Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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To be is to do.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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