Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANTSince the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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Dare to think!
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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