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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Immanuel Kant

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play

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