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

Immanuel Kant

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
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
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth

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