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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Immanuel Kant

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
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

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