Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
IMMANUEL KANTLaughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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