Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANTOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Dare to think!
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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