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

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Man Philosophy
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
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
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
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual

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