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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

Immanuel Kant

The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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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Goodness Possible Willing World
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
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
To be is to do.
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Action Existence

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