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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.
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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
Immanuel Kant
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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Immanuel Kant -
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
Immanuel Kant -
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
Immanuel Kant -
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
Immanuel Kant -
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant
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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
Immanuel Kant -
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.
Immanuel Kant -
If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
Immanuel Kant -
Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?
Immanuel Kant -
There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant -
Honesty is better than any policy.
Immanuel Kant
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If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
Immanuel Kant -
A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.
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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
Immanuel Kant
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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.
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One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
Immanuel Kant -
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
Immanuel Kant