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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

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
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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

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