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

Immanuel Kant

Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
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
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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

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