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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Immanuel Kant

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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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

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