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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.

Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement 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
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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
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
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth

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