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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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