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

Immanuel Kant

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
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
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
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

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