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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

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
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand

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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