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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Immanuel Kant

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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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Art Beautiful Nature
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
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

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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