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

Immanuel Kant

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
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
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
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
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity

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