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

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 cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
How 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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People

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