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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
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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Independent Man Understand
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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy

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