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.
IMMANUEL KANTAll 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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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