Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
IMMANUEL KANTThe main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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