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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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