The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTA 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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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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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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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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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 greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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