The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTSpace and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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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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