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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.

Immanuel Kant

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
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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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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

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