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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

Immanuel Kant

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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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 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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
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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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World

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