Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
IMMANUEL KANTLaughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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