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

Immanuel Kant

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
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
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.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
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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Act Judgement Life Result
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World

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

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