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

Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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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Independent Man Understand
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
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 history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy

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