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Immanuel Kant

It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand

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