All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTAll human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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