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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

Immanuel Kant

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

Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
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
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
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
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
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
IMMANUEL KANT

Philosophy Spiritual

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