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

Immanuel Kant

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
IMMANUEL KANT

Happiness Hope Love
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANT

Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
IMMANUEL KANT

Action Secret Spring
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
IMMANUEL KANT

Greatness Human Philosophy
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANT

Material Philosophy Rich
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANT

Faith Knowledge Myself
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
IMMANUEL KANT

End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANT

God Goodness Herself Man Nature
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
IMMANUEL KANT

Justice People
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild

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