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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Immanuel Kant

The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand

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