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

Immanuel Kant

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection

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