Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTEnlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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