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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Immanuel Kant

The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

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