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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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
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
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy

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