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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

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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
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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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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

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