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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

Immanuel Kant

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

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