All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
IMMANUEL KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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