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.
IMMANUEL KANTIf God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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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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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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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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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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