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Immanuel Kant

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People

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