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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

Immanuel Kant

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANT

Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANT

Material Philosophy Rich
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
IMMANUEL KANT

Genius Independent Learning Person
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANT

Material Philosophy Rich

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