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

Immanuel Kant

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning 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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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