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

Immanuel Kant

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
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself

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