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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.

Immanuel Kant

It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
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 wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
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

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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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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