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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

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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person

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