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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Immanuel Kant

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
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
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge

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