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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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