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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

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right

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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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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