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“Act always according to that maxim who’s universality as a law you can at the same time will.”

“It is on this location of the individual as constituted by both an empirical self and a transcendental self thst slant grounds his account of the individual as both natural and supra-natural, as both a being constituted by natural desires existing within the chains of cause and effect which define nature and as a being constituted by a rational will capable of initiating causal sequences within nature...”

“Having first made their domestic livestock dumb, and carefully made sure that these docile creatures will not take a single step... these gaurdians then show them the danger that threatens them, should they attempt to walk alone. Now this danger is not actually so great, for after falling a few times they would in the end certainly learn to walk; but an example of this kind makes men timid...”

“It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all.”

“Have the courage to use your own understanding! —that is the motto of enlightenment”

“Kant and the Question of Maturity”