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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason

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