Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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