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To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
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
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
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
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose

To be is to do.

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