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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.

Immanuel Kant

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right

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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