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 reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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Dare to think!
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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