The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTHow 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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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