The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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