Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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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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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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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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