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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Immanuel Kant

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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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Independent Man Understand
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

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