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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
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
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World

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