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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Immanuel Kant

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
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
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man

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