But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
IMMANUEL KANTOnly the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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