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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Immanuel Kant

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

Humanity Philosophy
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People

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