Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANTThere is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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