Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTLaughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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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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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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