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

Immanuel Kant

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
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
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
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
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth

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