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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature

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