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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Immanuel Kant

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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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Business Greatness Material Reason
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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.
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Art Beautiful Nature
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
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

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