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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

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
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
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power 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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