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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.

Immanuel Kant

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself 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
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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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