The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTBeauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Dare to think!
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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