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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Immanuel Kant

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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Act Judgement Life Result
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
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
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
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
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual

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