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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Immanuel Kant

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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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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Act Judgement Life Result
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human

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