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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.

Immanuel Kant

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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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Act Law Moral Time
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason

Enlightenment 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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