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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time

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