The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTThe main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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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