Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
IMMANUEL KANTBeauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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