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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Immanuel Kant

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
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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Art Beautiful Nature
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
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
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man

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