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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Immanuel Kant

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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
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
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth

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