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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

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World

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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