Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
IMMANUEL KANTThe death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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To be is to do.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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