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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.

Immanuel Kant

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason

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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