Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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