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

Immanuel Kant

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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
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
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
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

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