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

Immanuel Kant

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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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 busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring

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