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

Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
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
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual

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