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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Immanuel Kant

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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 although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning 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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation

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