The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTHow then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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We are enriched not 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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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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