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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Since 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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Break End Human Race
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right

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