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

Immanuel Kant

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself

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