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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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