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

Immanuel Kant

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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

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