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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Immanuel Kant

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
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
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
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
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
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy

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