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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

Immanuel Kant

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking

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