How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
IMMANUEL KANTEnlightenment 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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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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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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