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To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power 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
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring

To be is to do.

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