Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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