Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Dare to think!
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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