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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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Maximum individuality within maximum community

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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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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.

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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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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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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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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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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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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

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