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To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant

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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
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
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature

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