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.
IMMANUEL KANTThe main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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