"The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do...
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~ Immanuel Kant ~
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from an...
"...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freed...
"Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (natural...
"Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what re...
"(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of rea...
"...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reaso...
"[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself...
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
"Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds...
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in quest...
"...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a wi...
"...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much the more does the ...
"In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it as a fundamental principle...