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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy

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