The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTThings which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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All 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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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