The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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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 death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Dare to think!
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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