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

Immanuel Kant

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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
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
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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

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