The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTThere is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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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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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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