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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Immanuel Kant

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
IMMANUEL KANT

Philosophy Spiritual
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
IMMANUEL KANT

Mathematics Science
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
IMMANUEL KANT

End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANT

God Hell Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANT

Independent Man Understand
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANT

Existence Man Philosophy Reason
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANT

Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
IMMANUEL KANT

Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom God History Man Nature
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness

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