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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
IMMANUEL KANT

Courage Daring Intelligence
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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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Children Patience Time Truth
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason

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