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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth

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