The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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