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"Rules for Happiness:
something to do,
someone to love,
something to hope for."
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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
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"For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first."
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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
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"Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end."
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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"Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)"
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"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
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"I had to suspend knowledge, in order to make room for faith."
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason)
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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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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."
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"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
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"Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment..."
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
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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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"Dare to think! "
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"Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan.
Itulah kebahagiaan."
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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. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! “Have courage to use your own understanding!”–that is the motto of enlightenment."
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence the more often and more steadily one reflects on them, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
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"Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas
Tout concept sans intuition est vide"
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"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."
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"Seek not the favor of the multitude... But seek the testimony of the few; and number not the voices, but weigh them."
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"Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience."
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"To Be is To Do."
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"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt"
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."
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"Dare to know."
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"The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life."
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"From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn"
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"The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding."
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made."
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"A inocência é uma coisa admirável; mas é por outro lado muito triste que ela se possa preservar tão mal e se deixe tão facilmente seduzir"
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"Faulheit und Feigheit sind die Ursachen, warum ein so großer Teil der Menschen, nachdem sie die Natur längst von fremder Leitung frei gesprochen, dennoch gerne zeitlebens unmündig bleiben; und warum es anderen so leicht wird, sich zu deren Vormündern aufzuwerfen."
Immanuel Kant (Was ist Aufklärung? Ausgewählte kleine Schriften)
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"Une politique valable ne peut faire un pas sans rendre hommage à la morale."
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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. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.
Sapere Aude! [dare to know]
"Have courage to use your own understanding!"
that is the motto of enlightenment. "
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"From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed."
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"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
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"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."
Immanuel Kant (Kritik der reinen Vernunft)
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"Handle so, daß die Maxime deines Willens jederzeit zugleich als Prinzip einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung gelten könne."
Immanuel Kant (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Prolegomena, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten & Metaphyische Anfangssgründe der Naturwissenschaft)
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"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
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"Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment."
Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals)
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"The contingency of all things is mere phenomenon and can only lead to the empirical regressus that determines phenomena"
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"Requires that the maxims be chosen as though they should hold as universal laws of nature"
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