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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.

Immanuel Kant

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature

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