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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
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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Independent Man Understand
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection

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