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

Immanuel Kant

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
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
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
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

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