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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.

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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
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
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth

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