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

Immanuel Kant

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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
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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Act Judgement Life Result
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy

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