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 KANTGenius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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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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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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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-incurred immaturity.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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