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

Immanuel Kant

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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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