It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
IMMANUEL KANTSince 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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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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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than 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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