The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTDare to think!
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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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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Dare to think!
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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