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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
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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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
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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Genius Independent Learning Person
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People

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