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

Immanuel Kant

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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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Act Judgement Life Result
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary

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