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Immanuel Kant

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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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

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