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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

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People

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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