Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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