The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTBetter the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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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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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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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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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