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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
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
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right

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