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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Immanuel Kant

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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature

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