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

Immanuel Kant

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
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
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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 are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason

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