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Immanuel Kant

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play

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