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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
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
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself

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