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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
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
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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

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