In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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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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