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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

Immanuel Kant

You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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 without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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

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