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

Immanuel Kant

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
IMMANUEL KANT

Action Secret Spring
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
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

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