By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTHow things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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