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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man

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