The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTFor peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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